Live Action Anime

What would happen if you made a live action Anime?

Casshern is what.

Can you call it Anime? It sure looks like Anime... But the actors aren't animated. (Are the Mary Poppins subset of films considered cartoons?)

You might argue The Matrix is already an example of this. But I'd respond that what Matrix does is take a lot of Anime style and paste it onto an American action movie. It's kind of like the Chipotle of movies. Yeah, it's a burrito, but too many things have been tweaked to make it a real burrito.