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Tetsuo - The Iron Man
1989
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, .. Read more
| Starring | Anthony Bevilacqua, Kei Fujiwara, Markus Greiner |
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| Director | Shinya Tsukamoto |
| Genres | Horror, World Cinema |
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Tetsuo - The Iron Man
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.
| Starring | Anthony Bevilacqua, Kei Fujiwara, Markus Greiner |
|---|---|
| Director | Shinya Tsukamoto |
| Studio | PALISADES TARTAN |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 7 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Japanese |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 22 Apr 2002 Production year: 1989 |
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Between his classic Dracula and his masterpiece Freaks, Tod Browning made this conventional boxing drama about a lightweight on his way to the title. Playing the boxer is Lew Ayres, then famous for his role in All Quiet on the Western Front, who must somehow cope with the demands of his manager as well as the duplicity of his wife, played by Jean Harlow. Critics weren't entirely enthusiastic about Harlow's performance, but her move to MGM a year later saw her brief but spectacular career really take off.
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Weird science-fiction fantasy, by turns surreal and nasty, but displaying an unusual visual flair by its writer-director.
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18 out of 18 people found this review helpful
Absolutely Mental
'Tetsuo - The Iron Man' takes my record for being the most mental film I ever seen (and I've seen a lot of bizarre stuff)!
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not recommended
Complete garbage. This film was highly recommended to me by a friend but i'll be having words with him after seeing this incomprehensible piece of film! The... 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 accidentally rams his car ... -