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Now that my Casshern angst has ebbed somewhat thanks to my having the DVD on order it has been replaced by the absolutely delirious Survive Style 5 as my most anticipated film coming out of Japan.

This baby looks absolutely surreal thanks to some way stylized camera work, a garish color scheme and a cast that includes Tadanobu Asano (aka Ichi the Killer's Kakihara), Sonny Chiba (70's film icon most recently seen as Hattori Hanzo in Kill Bill) and Vinny Jones (former pro soccer player turned big screen goon thanks to Lock Stock and Snatch).

The site's just had a major face lift and had a stack of new material added. Fire up your Windows Media Player because you absolutely DO NOT want to miss the trailers (here, here, here and here), a series of what I can only assume are VERY surreal tv spots for the film (here, here, here, and here) and a lengthy behind the scenes clip here.

There's more but I'm so smitten by that tiger headed codpiece that I'm going to stop there. I gotta find out where I can get me one of those ...