Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Surreal, Cult Classic, Disturbing, Futuristic, Fantasy, Gore, Demonic Possession, Psychic, Experimental
Plot: Somewhere between a modern day nightmare and a techno fetishist's ultimate fantasy, this extraordinary black and white film from Shinya Tsukamoto caused a sensation when it was first released, and spawned a companion piece, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer. It starts with a bizarre merging of flesh and metal and accelerates into a hyper-hallucinatory state where springs, wires and solder erupt fountain-like from a man''s body, fueled by cyberpunk sensuality and wrought iron perversion. Concerning itself with a young man's gradual mutation into a metal-being, the film takes a surreal journey into a dark and disturbing world where D.I.Y. body transformations and post-human women with deadly robot arms form the fabric of a strange new reality. Likened to the work of Lynch and Cronenberg, Tetsuo moulds explosive violence, bizarre sexual imagery and jet-black humour into a cinematic experience like you've never seen before. When an office worker and his girlfriend hit a metal fetishist in their car, they are thrown into a nightmarish world they may never escape from. The day after the accident, the office worker finds a metal whisker growing out of his face. This is soon followed my more metal growing out of him, and as he loses his sanity, his body becomes more taken over by machines and
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| Written by |
Shinya Tsukamoto
Ichi the Killer, Dead or Alive 2: Birds, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer |
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Shinya Tsukamoto
Ichi the Killer, Dead or Alive 2: Birds, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer |
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Organ, The Adventure of Denchu Kozo, Futsu saizu no kaijin | Nobu Kanaoka
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, Tokyo Fist, The Adventure of Denchu Kozo | | | |
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| Music By |
Chu Ishikawa
Gokudô sengokushi: Fudô, Dead or Alive 2: Birds, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer |
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