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Shinya Tsukamoto (writer)
Release Date:
1 July 1989 (Japan)
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A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body...
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Metal
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Fetishist
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Transformation
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Japanese
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Telekinesis
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2 wins
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The Voice Inside
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(From LateFilmFull. 6 November 2009, 1:16 AM, PST)
Sitges ’09: My Sitges Story—Part 10
(From Fangoria. 16 October 2009, 5:02 PM, PDT)
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Tomorowo Taguchi | ... | Man |
| Kei Fujiwara | ... | Woman |
| Nobu Kanaoka | ... | Woman in Glasses |
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| Renji Ishibashi | ... | Tramp |
| Naomasa Musaka | ... | Doctor |
| Shinya Tsukamoto | ... | Metals Fetishist |
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67 min | Argentina:69 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
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Referenced in Dead or Alive: Final (2002)
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Comparisons to Eraserhead and this movie are frequent and inevitable,i reckon, but while I like Eraserhead a lot, Tetsuo leaves it panting in the dust. OK, it's in black and white, it's surreal, and has industrial themes up the wazoo, but there the similarities end. A Japanese businessman hits a metal fetishist with his car and soon after he begins to find that his body is changing. Rather quickly too, he soon has metal and wires and all manner of nasty stuff sticking out of his body, and for some reason he finds all this a bit alarming. Wouldn't you? This is pretty vile in parts but not unwatchable, unless you have no tolerance for ickiness. Lots of stop action movement and lots of just plain out-there imagery, much of it ugly and brutal, if not all of it. If you like more recent movies like "Rubber's Lover" and are a big fan of "out-there" Japanese movies and you haven't seen THIS yet, please do, you're in for a treat. This is pretty disturbing but does not lack humor, although it's rather DARK humor. 9 out of 10 stars, SEE IT!