Tetsuo: The Iron Man
The Wish To Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema 2024 / Tetsuo / Japan 1989
Synopsis
In an abandoned factory a young man with an insatiable fetish for metal objects inserts a piece of scrap metal into a self-inflicted wound on his thigh. When he staggers out into the street off his head, he is hit by a car. The driver, an office worker, wakes up the following morning and notices a metal hair growing out of his cheek. And that’s just the start of what turns out to be an unprecedented mutation process. Imagine a cyberpunk version of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis: shot on 16mm film, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, with its perverse sense of humour, is to this day one of the most extreme apocalyptic debuts in recent decades.
Lorenzo Esposito
About the film
67 min / Black & white, DCP
Director Shinya Tsukamoto
/ Screenplay Shinya Tsukamoto
/ Dir. of Photography Shinya Tsukamoto, Kei Fujiwara
/ Music Chu Ishikawa
/ Editor Shinya Tsukamoto
/ Art Director Shinya Tsukamoto
/ Producer Shinya Tsukamoto
/ Production Kaijyu Theater
/ Cast Tomoroh Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Shinya Tsukamoto
/ Sales Nikkatsu Corporation
About the director
Shinya Tsukamoto (1960, Tokyo). Selected filmography: Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Tetsuo, 1989), Tokyo Fist (1995), Bullet Ballet (1998), Gemini (Sōseiji, 1999), A Snake of June (Rokugatsu no hebi, 2002), Vital (2004), Nightmare Detective (Akumu Tantei, 2006), Kotoko (2011), Fires on the Plain (Nobi, 2015), Killing (Zan, 2018).
Contacts
Nikkatsu Corporation
3-28-12 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113 0033, Tokyo
Japan
Phone: +81 356 891 014
Fax: +81 356 891 042
E-mail: matsuda475@nikkatsu.co.jp
