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Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男, Tetsuo, 'iron man') is a 1989 Japanese science fiction horror film film written, produced, edited, and directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. The central character is a Japanese salary man portrayed by Tomorowo Taguchi, who is transformed by a encounter with another person in a hit and run accident. The salary man wakes up to find that pieces of metal are sprouting pieces from various parts of his body and that he his haunted by visions metal-oriented sexual fantasies. As the man becomes more of a hybrid of man and machine, he also develops a connection with another the man from the hit and run incident, who is also going under a similar transformation.
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Directed by | Shinya Tsukamoto |
Screenplay by | Shinya Tsukamoto |
Produced by | Shinya Tsukamoto[1] |
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Edited by | Shinya Tsukamoto |
Music by | Chu Ishikawa |
Production company | Kaijyu Theatre
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Distributed by | Kaijyu Theatre |
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Running time | 67 minutes[1] |
Country | Japan[1] |
The film was the first feature length film by Tsukamoto after he spent his youth creating film shorts and entering Japanese experimental theatre. Through his theatre work, he met likeminded people to perform in plays and later short films such as Kei Fujiwara and Taguchi. Filming proved to be difficult with much of the cast and crew abandoning the production with only Taguchi and Tsukamoto arriving on set to finish the film. After having the film win the Grand Prize at the Fantafestival in Italy, the film grew in popularity in Japan becoming a top seller on home video for non-mainstream cinema.
American and British critics compared the film to the work of directors Sam Raimi, David Cronenberg and David Lynch while still finding the film to be original film that was difficult to parse. A sequel titled Tetsuo II: Body Hammer followed in 1992 while later critics such as Michael Brooke of Sight & Sound stating it "remains one of the most pulverisingly effective sci-fi horror films of the past quarter of a century."[3] while the Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo placed included the film on their list of top 200 Japanese films in 2009.