Casshern R1 -- October 16th, 2007 (?)
 

Listing finally popped up on Amazon.com (taken from twitchfilm.com) - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000UAEBFK

Not sure how accurate it is, what extras there are, or what. Not the greatest movie in the world (alright so my head hurt by the time it was over), but nice to see it make its way stateside... and still has one hell of a cool trailer.

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The Product Details on that Amazon page don't add up ...

This could be placeholder info, but does Amazon normally put up such incorrect placeholder info? Is Paramount really the studio distributing this? I thought Dreamworks acquired the North American rights to Casshern a couple of years back. And the running time is really wrong. This couldn't be a release of the Japanese Anime series, could it?

I was just thinking about this the other day, coincidentally. I purchased a factory-pressed "copy" of the Japanese 2-disc edition at a convention in 2005, right before I heard about Dreamworks acquiring the R1 distribution rights. But the R1 disc never materialized.

Depends what division of Dreamworks acquired the movie. Dreamworks animation/SKG remains on its own, but Dreamworks LLC is now part of Viacom who placed them as a sort of sibling/subsidary of Paramount.

So as such, it may very well be Paramount releasing the DVD. That said, the runtime is incorrect, but they usually are until release.

This is a good film to watch with the subtitles off. ANY dialogue you could imagine would be better than that actually written for the actors.

If anyone's interested, I have the 3-disc Korean Ultimate Edition (R3) for trade here.

I really enjoyed this movie! I own the 3-Disc version too.

GoFish Pictures, DreamWorks' independent arm picked up the film years ago.

Paramount Pictures currently has an agreement to distribute all DreamWorks films theatrically and to DVD.

Thus Casshern will be released to DVD via Paramount.

HEY!

:)

Under other studios, the three-disc set would be ported over to R1. However, knowing DreamWorks and Paramount's record, there's a better chance of hell freezing over.

FWIW, the Thai R0 is very nice and only $10.50 shipped:
http://www.ethaicd.com/show.php?pid=17144

Yeah, divisions and things don't matter. At this early stage, Amazon will say the parent company (if this was an MGM film it would say 20th Century Fox).

Here's a more official statement of release, along with cover art. Apparently, it's a director's cut. I can't recall if the 2-disc. non-R1 edition was a director's cut or not. Can somebody enlighten me?