Tetsuo - The Iron Man (Special Edition)
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Actor: Kei Fujiwara, Naomasa Musaka, Nobu Kanaoka, Renji Ishibashi, Tomorowo TaguchiPrimary Contributor: Kei Fujiwara
Primary Contributor: Tomorowo Taguchi
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Unknown); English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 67 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tartan Video
DVD Reviews of Tetsuo - The Iron Man (Special Edition)
DVD Review: Epic Movie, Fail Chinese Bootleg
Summary: 5 Stars
Epic movie but buyers beware.., I got my first fail chinese bootleg from an amazon merchant seller (secondpin_us.) Quickly resolved the issue with a refund lol FREE TIBET!
DVD Review: Ive seen better j-horror
Summary: 4 Stars
While the movie does live up to its hype, i found it a tad boring, but thank god it was only about an hour. The use of biotechnical persons was different and interesting, but too random with arts that didnt even make sense. 5 if i coulda been on the edge of my seat, if you buy it, have a snack ready.DVD Review: brilliant
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is absolutely brilliant. Tsukamoto's genius shines through this gritty and rusted masterpiece. His way of filming is unique and beautiful to say the least. There is also some really impressive stop motion animation to be seen in this film, though its fairly brief. The sound track is also a masterpiece, if you can find it on cd, i highly recommend it.
Over all Tetsuo: The Iron Man is one of the most beautiful films to have been made, it is pure and it is rust.
DVD Review: Full of itself, but ultimately unfulfilling
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this DVD on heavy recommendations... and must now go beat my friends unmercifully. This film illuminates a classic truth: "Just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you SHOULD do something". The director goes crazy with the stop-motion and wire effects... and ends up with a boring compilation of one mess after another. I do mean "mess". If this achieved "cult" status, then all I can say is that would-be cultists are scraping by on some lean fare!
I'm sure the director is trying to say something here... and perhaps the subtitles didn't help any... but this was simply his love affair with (SUPREMELY dated) special effects work. Nothing more. I swear, I don't even think this was very good EFX work for the time period in which it was made. I remember amatuer stop motion work from the 70s on public access channels that looked more interesting than this stuff.
Oh, and I don't think I've ever seen a Japanese man's mouth open wide in a rictus of shock/horror/fear so often in a movie before. This was the actor trying to emote, obviously, but ended up looking nothing more than ridiculous.
After all the urgings I received to get this movie, I thought it might well become a gem of my library. Instead it goes to the bottom of the barrel.
Yes, I "got it" alright. I simply didn't think "it" was worth much at all.
DVD Review: You've never seen anything quite like this
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is just cool to watch - and hear! Heavy, industrial music and sound effects, black and white, guaranteed to put you 'in a metal mood'. After you've seen it, you won't be able to get certain images out of your head. Don't spend too much time trying to figure out the "plot" (or lack of it..), just allow yourself to be amazed, freaked out and sucked in by this trippy, crazy, horrific little gem.
Description of Tetsuo - The Iron Man (Special Edition)
Somewhere between nightmare and a techno-fetishist's ultimate fantasy, this extraordinary film from Shinya Tsukamoto caused a sensation when it was first released, and spawned a companion piece, Tetsuo II: The Body Hammer. Concerning itself with a young man's gradual mutation into a metal-being, the film takes a surreal journey into a dark and disturbing world where D.I.Y. body transformations and post-human women with deadly robot arms form the fabric of a strange new reality. Likened to the work of Lynch and Cronenberg, Tetsuo molds explosive violence, bizarre sexual imagery and jet-black humor into a cinematic experience like you've never seen before.Shinya Tsukamoto draws on the marriage of flesh and technology that inspires so much of David Cronenberg's work and then twists it into a manga-influenced cyberpunk vision. A man (Tomoroh Taguchi) awakens from a nightmare in which his body is helplessly fusing with the metal objects around him, only to find it happening to him in real life... or is it? Haunted by memories of a hit and run (eerily prophetic of Cronenberg's Crash), the man knows this ordeal could be a dream, a fantastic form of divine retribution, or perhaps technological mutation born of guilt and rage. Shot in bracing black and white on a small budget, Tsukamoto puts a demented conceptual twist on good old-fashioned stop-motion effects and simple wire work, giving his film the surreal quality of a waking dream with a psychosexual edge (resulting in the film's most disturbing scene). The story ultimately takes on an abstract quality enhanced by the grungy look and increasingly wild images as they take to the streets in a mad chase of technological speed demons. This first entry in his self-titled "Regular Sized Monster Series" is followed by a full-color sequel, Tetsuo II: The Body Hammer, which trades the muddy experimental atmosphere for a big-budget sheen but can't top the cybershock to the system this movie packs. --Sean Axmaker
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