Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
Produced by Hiromi Aihara
Hiroshi Koizumi
Fumio Kurokawa
Fuminori Shishido
Nobuo Takeuchi
Shinya Tsukamoto
Starring Tomorowo Taguchi
Shinya Tsukamoto
Music by Chu Ishikawa
Cinematography Fumikazu Oda
Shinya Tsukamoto
Katsunori Yokoyama
Editing by Shinya Tsukamoto
Distributed by Manga
Release date(s) Japan 1992
Running time 81 min.
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Preceded by Tetsuo: The Iron Man
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer is a 1992 Japanese science fiction/horror film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is a bigger-budget reworking of the same director's 1988 movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man, utilizing similar themes and ideas to the earlier film (a Japanese salaryman, played by cult actor Tomorowo Taguchi, finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.)

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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer is in color as opposed to Tetsuo: The Iron Man which was in black and white.

The DVD is available in the United States from the Manga Company.

This film has a slightly more understandable plot than its predecessor.

The film is rated R in the United States for bizarre violent images throughout and brief sexuality.

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