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Tetsuo: The Iron Man

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Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1988)

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Reviews Counted: 11 Fresh: 8  Rotten:3 Average Rating: 7.1/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

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 his car into a cyberpunky "metal fetishist" (Tsukamoto) whose jollies include... 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]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Tomoro Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoko, Shinya Tsukamoto

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Composer: Chu Ishikawa

DVD Info

Release:

Jan 6, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case

Audio:

  • (unspecified) - English

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
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4/5

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
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2/5

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
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11/06/05
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
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4/5

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
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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
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surreally disjointed

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03/31/05
Keith Breese
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Rumsey Taylor
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Stephen Holden
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Jake Euker
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06/06/03
Walter Chaw
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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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