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Tetsuo: The Iron Man

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Tetsuo: The Iron Man
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1hr 7min
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1989
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Synopsis: An hour-long feature from Japanese director Shinyu Tsukamoto, Tetsuo (also known as Tetsuo: The Iron Man) tells a horrific, cyberpunk-influenced science fiction tale about the intersection of man and post-industrial technology. The central character is a Japanese salary man, an average office worker who is transformed by a brief encounter with a metals fetishist, a man who has purposefully implanted pieces of scrap metal in his body. The salary man soon begins sprouting pieces of metal from various ... Full Synopsis
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An over-the-top study in urban nightmares and body horror, Japanese auteur of the grotesque Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man in a nonstop barrage of nerve-shredding, mind-splitting surrealism that serves as a jarring analysis of the paranoia of industrialization. The constant manipulation of multiple cinematic techniques, including film-speed and stop motion, coupled with the film's fever-pitched ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Salaryman
Salaryman's Girlfriend
Young Metals Fetishist
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