Sustained with satirical expressionism for indelible clamminess
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1988)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:9
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: A visually arresting and highly disturbing urban flight of fancy from Japanese auteur Shinya Tsukamoto, who also starred, wrote, shot, and edited. A buttoned-up Japanese commuter accidentally rams... A visually arresting and highly disturbing urban flight of fancy from Japanese auteur Shinya 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. Followed by a sequel, "Tetsuo II: Bodyhammer." Also features cult short "Drum Struck." [More]
Starring: Tomoro Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoko, Shinya Tsukamoto
Starring: Tomoro Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoko, Shinya Tsukamoto
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Composer: Chu Ishikawa
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Reviews for Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Unquestionably it's a feat of imagination and technique, but an hour of it is more than enough.
Exercício surrealista histérico e obviamente ludita que, apesar de substituir as idéias pelo corte rápido, cria uma atmosfera de pesadelo sufocante.
Filled with wild stop motion effects and brilliant conceptual horrors, this is a horror film for the modern technological world.
As a freak show..., Tetsuo certainly deserves its reputation. It contains memorable sequences of sickening imagination, and unique takes on tired sci-fi/ action ideas.
Tetsuo and Fetishist's transformation into Iron Man becomes a response to the machinization of the individual in a systematically regimented Japan.
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