Tetsuo: The Iron Man
1989 · TMDB 7.0 · 鉄男
Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Why it matters
Shinya Tsukamoto's black-and-white cyberpunk landmark, in which a man's body begins to fuse with scrap metal. Shot on 16mm with stop-motion and practical effects, it is a frenzied, industrial vision of transformation.
- Runtime
- 67 min
- Released
- 1989-07-01
- Studio
- Kaijyu Theater
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- TMDB score
- 7.0
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