Screening as part of Japan 2020: Over 100 years of Japanese Cinema, a UK-wide film season supported by National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network. Somewhere between a modern-day nightmare and a techno-fetishists ultimate fantasy, this extraordinary film from Shinya Tsukamoto (. A startling, surreal tale of physical mutation and psychosexual transformation, shot in quicksilver black & white, and powered by a pulsing, pounding heavy-industrial score, it’s a sensual sensory overload, a lunatic live-action manga, a savage and subversive satire of salaryman culture, and a dark love story for the machine age, manic and magnificently nihilistic, the brute bastard child of Transgressive 80s Underground Cinema and S&M subculture, and – rather disturbingly – a deeply personal project for the multitalented Tsukamoto, who not only writes, directs, produces, shoots and edits, but also stars as the nameless Metal Fetishist. Thirty two years after its release, Shin’ya Tsukamoto’s groundbreaking, boundary-pushing, polymorphously perverse tech/body horror has lost none of its visceral, punishing power. Sunday 31st October at 1.00pm Buy Ticketsĭirector / Producer / Writer / Cinematographer / Editor: Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Cinematographer: Kei Fujiwara Cast: Tomorô Taguchi, Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu KanaokaĪ staid salaryman’s head-on collision with a sadomasochistic metal fetishist triggers a terrifying and life-altering transformation… Film: Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) – CERT 18 – Part of Grimmfest
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