See Tetsuo Ironman: A Japanese Film
Tetsuo Iron Man was the debut film from Japanese madman director Shinya Tsukamoto. Even if you don’t like reading subtitles, put it on your queue next time you log into your movie download service anyways. It’s NOT that kind of foreign film. It’s practically a silent film, because it’s really just all action, special effects and weirdness, with very little dialog.
The main character is a Japanese salary man who is sort of the Japanese equivalent of the “everyman” character. One day, metal starts growing from his body for… Well, pretty much no reason at all. It’s really the same sort of Japanese surrealism as Kobo Abe writes, and drives home the same basic idea, that life is strange and unpredictable.
The concept behind the movie was to make something like a monster film with a human sized badguy. The end result is sort of the Japanese answer to both David Cronenberg, and David Lynch’s Eraserhead. It’s definitely a strange journey full of unforgettable images, for better or for worse. The movie might be right up your alley, or it may leaving you simply scratching your head, but it’s not an experience you’ll forget any time soon.
This is really what Japanese cyberpunk is all about. It’s not so much about the relation between man and computers as man and industrial concepts. So the film is filled with imagery of steam and steel and junkyards and factories. The closest comparison in American cyberpunk would be Robocop, set in the industrial city of Detroit. Although Robocop has nothing on this film’s style.
The style of the movie is what really makes it special. It’s fast, it’s confusing, it looks like a nightmare with a stark black and white look. It really does feel more like a bad dream than it does like anything that could ever happen in real life.
Besides Eraserhead, the movie also draws a lot of inspiration from Cronenberg’s Videodrome, starring James Woods. It uses some of the same recurring images of flickering television sets and grotesque horror sights. So, a warning, if that movie made you squeamish, this one will, too.
Tsukamoto would later go on to create a number of incredible films, including Tokyo Fist and Bullet Ballet, and a sequel to the original Tetsuo, called Tetsuo: Body Hammer. He’s now working on a third in the series, Tetsuo: The Bulletman. All of his films focus on some similar themes regarding violence, sexuality and the male ego. If you like Tetsuo Iron Man, check out Tokyo Fist, which similarly deals with the concept of rage as a component of transformation.
He’s also gone on to have a career as an actor (he plays a major character in this film), starring as a major character in Ichi the Killer. His career is certainly one to watch. Twenty years after his debut, it’s clear that he’s just warming up.
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