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Starring:
Tomoroh Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Shinya Tsukamoto.
"Tetsuo: The Iron Man has inspired comparison with the work of Lynch and Cronenberg. Elements and themes from Manga, Western sci-fi, and Godzilla are combined in a violent array of flashbacks, fast-forwards and nightmarish dream sequences. The action centres around a young metal fetishist who tries to insert pieces of metal into his own skin. Running out into the street he is knocked down by a car. The accident gives him strange powers and his body begins to painfully mutate into a synergy of flesh and metal. Meanwhile, the salaryman who ran him down finds his own body is also transforming into a metallic monster...
"This bizarre surreal fantasy mixes black humour and sexual imagery with a hypnotic post-industrial soundtrack. Tetsuo is like nothing you will have seen before". [video blurb, UK release]
"Tetsuo: The Iron Man is primal 21st Century cinema, a pure manga sensibility transferred to the screen with gorgeously deranged energy. Shinya Tsukamoto is a genuinely visionary film-maker". --William Gibson.
"A bizarre wet dream, a horrifying sex death -- and ghastly special effects. Unmissable!" --(in Time Out ).
"Very very weird, bizarre and disturbing. Could easily be the strangest film I've ever seen. A must for any archive of cult films". --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1994).
Highly recommended.
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