169 mins |
Rated
R16 (Violence)
Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
Starring Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka
The closing night event of Academy Cinemas' MIND-F*** FILM FESTIVAL, playing June 15th - July 8th!
Experience a double feature from the depths of body-horror hell with Shinya Tsukamoto’s ferocious, frenetic, claustrophobic, techno-tronic ERASERHEAD riffs, TETSUO: THE IRON MAN and TETSUO II: BODY HAMMER!
The first TETSUO film - now a Japanese horror classic - was financed through Tsukamoto’s day job, and considered unreleasable until it screened at a film festival in Rome where it became an instant hit! Filmed on 16mm black and white film, this creation is a stunning visual affair you need to catch on the big screen with its bigger-budget sequel!
Includes 20 min intermission between films.
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TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989)
67mins
A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal, and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fueled transformation.
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TETSUO 2: BODY HAMMER (1992)
82mins
In this sequel to TETSUO, the Iron Man is transforming into cyberkinetic gun when a gang of vicious skinheads kidnap his son. When the skinheads capture him, they begin to experiment on him...speeding up the mutative process!
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The closing night event of Academy Cinemas' MIND-F*** FILM FESTIVAL, playing June 15th - July 8th!
Experience a double feature from the depths of body-horror hell with Shinya Tsukamoto’s ferocious, frenetic, claustrophobic, techno-tronic ERASERHEAD riffs, TETSUO: THE IRON MAN and TETSUO II: BODY HAMMER!
The first TETSUO film - now a Japanese horror classic - was financed through Tsukamoto’s day job, and considered unreleasable until it screened at a film festival in Rome where it became an instant hit! Filmed on 16mm black and white film, this creation is a stunning visual affair you need to catch on the big screen with its bigger-budget sequel!
Includes 20 min intermission between films.
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TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989)
67mins
A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal, and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fueled transformation.
____________________________
TETSUO 2: BODY HAMMER (1992)
82mins
In this sequel to TETSUO, the Iron Man is transforming into cyberkinetic gun when a gang of vicious skinheads kidnap his son. When the skinheads capture him, they begin to experiment on him...speeding up the mutative process!