Tetsuo: The Iron Man
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| Tetsuo: The Iron Man | |
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| Directed by | Shinya Tsukamoto |
| Produced by | Shinya Tsukamoto |
| Written by | Shinya Tsukamoto |
| Starring | Tomorowo Taguchi Kei Fujiwara Shinya Tsukamoto |
| Music by | Chu Ishikawa |
| Cinematography | Kei Fujiwara |
| Release date(s) |  1988 October 5 1994 |
| Running time | 67 min. |
| Language | Japanese |
| Followed by | Tetsuo II |
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- This article is about the Japanese cult film Tetsuo: The Iron Man. For the character from the Akira anime and manga, see Tetsuo Shima.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男: Tetsuo) is a 1988 Japanese film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films. Tetsuo established Tsukamoto internationally and created his worldwide cult. It was followed by Tetsuo II: Body Hammer.
[edit] Synopsis
The film opens with a man (called only "the man", or sometimes the "Metals Fetishist") tearing open a massive gash in his leg and shoving in a piece of scrap metal. Upon seeing maggots festering in the wound, he screams, runs out into the street, and is hit by a car. The driver of the car (cult actor Taguchi Tomorowo) tries to cover up the mess by dumping the body into a ravine, but the dead man comes back to haunt him -- by forcing his body to gradually metamorphose into a walking pile of scrap metal. In one of the film's most controversial sequences, the man discovers his penis has mutated into a gargantuan power drill, and his girlfriend willingly copulates to death upon it. The film ends with a duel between the man and the Fetishist with the pair transformed into a giant mutated monster.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Review at midnighteye.com
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man at the Internet Movie Database
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| Films directed by Shinya Tsukamoto | ||
| 1980s | Tetsuo: The Iron Man | |
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| 1990s | Hiruko the Goblin | Tetsuo II: Body Hammer | Tokyo Fist | Bullet Ballet | Gemini | |
| 2000s | A Snake of June | Vital | Female | Haze | Nightmare Detective | |
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