Tetsuo - The Iron Man DVD

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Production Year: 1989 - Horror - Director: Shinya Tsukamoto - Original Language: Japanese - Classification: 18 years and over more

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A visually arresting and highly disturbing urban flight of fancy from Japanese auteur Tsukamoto, who also starred, wrote, shot, and edited. A buttoned-up Japanese commuter...
more...accidentally rams his car into a cyberpunky 'metal fetishist' (Tsukamoto) whose jollies include transplating metal parts into his body. After this encounter, the businessman begins inexplicably transforming into a metal man-machine, and soon finds himself merging identities (and bodies) with the similarly mechanized fetishist.





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"I am Iron Man...": Tetsuo the Iron Man
Review of Tetsuo - The Iron Man DVD by Azran

Advantages: Excellent cinematography, brilliant soundtrack, unusual and shocking
Disadvantages: a complete mind bending confusion!

A fascinating and at times disturbing look into the world of fetishism and sado-masochism. It'd be near impossible to convey any sort of story line in the form of a review, but there is a loose narrative of sorts, involving a man's quest for revenge and his transformation from a meek Japanese business man into a hybrid of man and machine, hell bent on destruction and, it is finally revealed, apocalypse. The power of this film to shock lies more ... Read review

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Review of Tetsuo - The Iron Man DVD by d_l_penny

Advantages: original
Disadvantages: guarantee you will not understand it!

tetsuo - the iron man 1989 it is now my duty as i have watched this film several times to try and understand the meaning of it to pass on what i see as my knowledge of it to other people whao may not be as patient as me to try and figure out what the hell this film is all about. i dont know how i am going to write this but here goes! a man with a metal fetish runs into the road and dies the man who killed him and his girlfriend both ... Read review

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In Tetsuo: The Iron Man Shinya Tsukamoto draws on the marriage of flesh and technology ... more
that inspires so much of David Cronenberg's work
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cyberpunk vision. A man (Tomoroh Taguchi) awakens
from a nightmare in whi...
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