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Blu-ray Review: 'Tetsuo' & 'Tetsuo II'

9 October 2012 6:01 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »

★★★★☆ This week, Third Window Film release two of Japanese cinema's most iconic cult movies. Shin'ya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) - two duel towering monstrosity of heavy metal horror with a fragrant disregard for narrative convention - both ignore traditional cinematic boundaries for an inventive mixture of shocks, gore and balls-to-the-wall eccentricity. The first film, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, opens with a peculiar man known only as the 'metal fetishist' inserting scrap metal into in his body. Whilst experimenting with his new mechanical form, a businessman driving his car hits him in the street.

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DVD Review: 'Kotoko'

8 October 2012 6:00 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »

★★★★☆ From Shin'ya Tsukamoto, the visionary director of 1989's Tetsuo: The Iron Man, comes Kotoko (2011) - an uncompromising voyage into the troubled mind of a young mother that's profoundly unsettling and severely disturbing. Kotoko follows the story of a single mother (played with breathtaking luminosity by J-pop superstar Cocco) teetering on the edge of a metal breakdown since suffering from double vision, turning her everyday life into an unbearable series of encounters.

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Tetsuo I & II: Blu-ray review

1 October 2012 10:34 AM, PDT | 24framespersecond.net | See recent 24FramesPerSecond news »

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto. Review: Adam Wing. For the first time in the world ever, two of the most popular Japanese cult films are available in glorious high definition. Director Shinya Tsukamoto (Snake of June, Tokyo Fist) supervised the transfer of this highly anticipated blu-ray release, featuring the first two films of the series and a 45-minute movie Tsukamoto made in his student days, called ‘The Adventures of Electric Rod Boy’. 1989’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man was shot in black in white, followed by a colour sequel three years later. Essentially an extended remake with a bigger budget, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer didn’t perform quite as well as the original back home, but both films have built a cult following around the world. It’s hardly surprisingly either. Tsukamoto’s surreal nightmares have been compared to the works of David Lynch and David Cronenberg, with the influence of both directors oozing from every frame. »

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Interview: Edinburgh Film Festival Artistic Director Chris Fujiwara on Asian film in the UK, Shinji Somai and more

29 June 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

After the much-discussed article we ran about the end of Third Window Films called into question, among other issues, the market for challenging Asian films in the UK, it's interesting to see what a strong focus this year's Edinburgh Film Festival has put on Asian film. In addition to a number of competition titles from all over Asia, the festival is showing a restored print of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo, the Iron Man, a complete retrospective of Shinji Somai's (Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, Love Hotel) films and an expansive sidebar dedicated to the Filipino New Wave. For more details, recommendations and some further perspective on Asian film in the UK, we turned to the festival's artistic director Chris Fujiwara. Twitch - While it's an incredibly »

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