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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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Sustained with satirical expressionism for indelible clamminess

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09/25/09
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

Unquestionably it's a feat of imagination and technique, but an hour of it is more than enough.

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05/05/08
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Exercício surrealista histérico e obviamente ludita que, apesar de substituir as idéias pelo corte rápido, cria uma atmosfera de pesadelo sufocante.

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06/16/06
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
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11/06/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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Filled with wild stop motion effects and brilliant conceptual horrors, this is a horror film for the modern technological world.

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09/15/05
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
St@tic Multimedia

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.

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08/30/05
Bill Gibron
Bill Gibron
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One of the first movies to give me a sense that there were no boundaries.

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07/11/05
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
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surreally disjointed

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03/31/05
Keith Breese
Keith Breese
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11/01/04
Rumsey Taylor
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08/30/04
Stephen Holden
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03/17/04
Jake Euker
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06/06/03
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

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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08/27/01
Ed Gonzalez
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