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Tetsuo: The Iron Man

1989 · 67 min

A grimy, feverish black-and-white assault of clanging metal and body horror that leaves you rattled and breathless.

Tagline
Metal invades the flesh. Murder consumes the mind.
Overview
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.

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    relentless, 4 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    None
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore strong
    • Language mild
    • Violence strong
    • Sex strong
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action6
    Horror9
    Humour2
    Realism3
    Romance2
    Tension8
    Darkness9
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Genres
    horror, science fiction
    Directed by
    Shinya Tsukamoto
    Written by
    Shinya Tsukamoto
    Starring
    Tomorowo Taguchi, Shinya Tsukamoto, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Naomasa Musaka, Renji Ishibashi
    Music
    Chu Ishikawa
    Cinematography
    Kei Fujiwara, Shinya Tsukamoto
    Runtime
    67 min
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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