Tetsuo: The Iron Man - Wikipedia. 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.
Original newspaper advertisement. Directed by. Shinya Tsukamoto. Produced by. Shinya Tsukamoto. Written by. Shinya Tsukamoto. Starring. Music by. Chu Ishikawa. Cinematography. Kei Fujiwara. Shinya Tsukamoto.
Edited by. Shinya Tsukamoto. Distributed by. Kaijyu Theatres. Release dates. Running time.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man, a super-short black and white movie (running at precisely 67 minutes) more suited to the art world than the cinema, is also notoriously one of the most difficult to both watch and indeed understand. With its cacophonous. Shinya Tsukamoto is a rare film-maker to challenge both the audio and the visual. With Tetsuo: Iron Man, Dominic looks over this Cyber-Punk classic and sees that Japanese B-Movies and art can become one visually inviting treat, but only for those brave enough to. Tetsuo The Iron Man ( 1988) by Shinya Tsukamoto Published July 1, 1989 Topics Tetsuo, Iron Man, Cult, Cyberpunk, Body Horror. Shinobu Nemoto - Tetsuo Sep 9, 2011 09/11 by Shinobu Nemoto audio eye 2,140 favorite 0 comment 0 by Steve Likoski audio.
Country. Japan. Language. Japanese. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (. It is shot in the same low- budget, underground- production style as his first two films. Tetsuo established Tsukamoto internationally and created his worldwide cult following. Later, upon seeing maggots festering in the wound, he screams, runs out into the street, and is hit by a car.
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. 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.
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- TETSUO, THE IRON MAN (1989) Trailer for Shinya Tsukamoto's surreal cyberpunk nightmare - Duration: 2:59.
The driver of the car, a Japanese salaryman (Tomorowo Taguchi), and his girlfriend (Kei Fujiwara) try to cover up the mess by dumping the body into a ravine, but the dumped man gets revenge by forcing the salaryman's body to gradually metamorphose into a walking pile of scrap metal. This process starts when the salaryman finds a piece of metal stuck in his cheek while shaving. He tries to remove it, but realizes it is growing from the inside. The scene cuts to the salaryman at his home having breakfast, with a bandage over his cheek. He receives a phone call, consisting of nothing but him and the other speaker (possibly his girlfriend) continuously saying . The salaryman seems to win this encounter by breaking the back of the radically transformed woman (she begins the sequence as a demure office worker and ends it as a wild metal- infected woman) after even more metal has erupted on his ankles and arm.
The next segment is a terrifying dream sequence where the salaryman's girlfriend, transformed into an exotic dancer with a snake- like metal probe, terrorizes and rapes the salaryman. After waking from this dream, the salaryman and his girlfriend have sex at his apartment and eat erotically. As she eats each bite given to her, he hears the sounds of metal scraping. The salaryman suddenly discovers his penis has mutated into a gargantuan power drill. A fight ensues where the salaryman terrorizes his girlfriend, and acquires more and more metal on his body. She fights back and in the end impales herself on his drill and dies. Helpless to do anything, the salaryman, now the Iron Man, is visited by the Metal Fetishist, who emerges from the dead girlfriend's corpse to show him a vision of a .
This is where the film suggests a post- apocalyptic future. The Iron Man flees and is followed by the Metal Fetishist into an abandoned building. After the Metal Fetishist explains to the Iron Man how both of them became what they are, a final battle ensues. The Iron Man ends by attempting to rust/combine himself with the Fetishist and this merges both of them (in a hallucinatory rebirth sequence where the two are connected by a metal umbilical chord) into a two- headed metal monster. The two agree to turn the whole world into metal and rust it, scattering it into the dust of the universe by claiming . The film ends with the words .
The camera work was split between himself and Kei Fujiwara both of whom also play the roles of major characters. So I figured that if I could keep some distance, I would be able to last much longer and keep a good relationship with them. It's true that almost every day I went there another crew member would have left. One day I arrived and the house and the lighting crew had gone, so I had to do the lighting for Tsukamoto's scenes myself. Toward the end, only the actors were still around. Nearly the entire crew had given up and left by then.
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