Tetsuo - The Iron Man (DVD)

Tetsuo - The Iron Man (DVD)

Production Year: 1989 - Horror - Director: Shinya Tsukamoto - Original Language: Japanese - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Tomoro Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara 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...
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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.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 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.
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Tetsuo - The Iron Man [VHS] [1989] Tetsuo - The Iron Man [VHS] [1989]
InTetsuo: The Iron ManShinya Tsukamoto draws on the marriage of flesh and technology that ... more
inspires so much of David Cronenberg's work and
then twists it into a Manga-influenced cyberpunk
vision. A man (Tomoroh Taguchi) awakens from a
nightmare in which his body is helplessly fusing
with the metal objects around him, only to find it
happening to him in real life... or is it? Haunted
by memories of a hit and run (eerily prophetic of
Cronenberg'sCrash), the man knows this ordeal
could be a dream, a fantastic form of divine
retribution, or perhaps technological mutation
born of guilt and rage.Shot in bracing black and
white on a small budget, Tsukamoto puts a demented
conceptual twist on good old-fashioned stop-motion
effects and simple wire work, giving his film the
surreal quality of a waking dream with a
psychosexual edge (resulting in the film's most
disturbing scene). The story ultimately takes on
an abstract quality enhanced by the grungy look
and increasingly wild images as they take to the
streets in a mad chase of technological speed
demons. This first entry in his self-titled
"Regular Sized Monster Series" was followed by a
full-colour sequel,Tetsuo II: The Body Hammer,
which trades the muddy experimental atmosphere for
a big-budget sheen but can't top the cybershock to
the system this movie packs.--Sean Axmaker
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"I am Iron Man...": Tetsuo the Iron Man
A review by Azran on Tetsuo - The Iron Man (DVD)
June 4th, 2008


Author's product rating:   

Did you enjoy it? Liked it 
Story Satisfactory 
Characters / Performances Satisfactory 
Special Effects Outstanding 
How does it compare to similar films? Good 

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

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

Full review

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 in the imagery and unconventional filming style than in it's content, the story itself is something of a classic revenge story, but it is executed (pardon the pun) with such finesse in terms of cinematography it really does warrant multiple views.
The entire film is set to a brilliant soundtrack (if your idea of brilliance is similiar to mine, encompassing) elements of krautrock, noise, punk, breakcore and psychadelia, that really adds to the shock value of the film.

Distinctly "art-house" in it's production, don''t let that put you off if it's on your list of "maybe's", this one's a real eye opener! 
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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 suffer the ...
...his girlfriend by having sex with him as his penis turns into some sort of rotating power drill??? This is what you see but throughout the film there is references to the first metal man and it seems to me that his father beat him over the head and rammed a metal pole into his head that could not be removed, resulting in him becoming all metal. In a similar way to the ring it is him passing on his misfortune. very similar to the david lynch classic ... Read review

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Tetsuo - The Iron Man (DVD)

Product details

Actor(s): Kei Fujiwara, Tomoro Taguchi

Director(s): Shinya Tsukamoto

Genre: Horror

Classification: 18 years and over

Production Year: 1989

Colour: Black & White

Running Time: 1 hour 7 minutes

Video Category: World Cinema Feature Film

Country Of Origin: Japan

Plot: A Japanese office worker who accidentally runs over a metal fetishist begins to sprout metal shards. Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.

Release details

DVD Region: DVD

Studio(s): PALISADES TARTAN; LACE GROUP; SONY DADC

Release date: 22/04/2002

No of Discs: 1

Catalogue No: TVD 3396

Cinematographer: Shinya Tsukamoto, Kei Fujiwara

Screenwriter: Shinya Tsukamoto

Barcode: 5023965339621

Producer: Shinya Tsukamoto

Composer: Chu Ishikawa

DVD Description

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 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.

Languages

Main Language: Japanese

Subtitle Language: English

Technical information

Special Features: Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer, 2. Asia Extreme Trailer Reel, Filmographies, Stills Gallery, Justin Bowyer Film Notes

Professional reviews

Review: "...Moving at a constantly furious pace, the film is grisly yet fascinating and even darkly humorous from the get-go..." (Los Angeles Times, p.F6, 09/07/1992)

"...Hyperkinetic....Driven by a perverse sense of humor..." (New York Times, p.C17, 22/04/1992)

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