Tetsuo: The Iron Man

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Movie
German title Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Original title Tetsuo
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1989
length 67 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Shin'ya Tsukamoto
script Shin'ya Tsukamoto
production Shin'ya Tsukamoto
music Chu Ishikawa
camera Shin'ya Tsukamoto,
Kei Fujiwara
cut Shin'ya Tsukamoto
occupation

Tetsuo: The Iron Man ( Japanese 鉄 男 , dt. " The Iron Man ") is a Japanese cyberpunk film by Shin'ya Tsukamoto from 1989.

action

The film begins with a man (metal fetishist) who implants a piece of metal in his body on an old industrial site. However, this goes wrong, the wound becomes infected with maggots. The man goes crazy and runs around wildly until he is hit by a car.

One morning an office worker discovers a piece of metal in his cheek while shaving. He then goes to work, but is attacked on the way by a woman whose hand is made of metal and hoses. In the course of the next few hours, the employee mutated more and more into a machine being. In a grotesque dream scene, a huge, rotating metal penis grows.

Dream, real and hunting scenes alternate until he finally, completely transformed, meets the metal fetishist. The two duel and then merge. Together they now want to transform the world into a world of metal and rust.

Design

Tetsuo - Iron Man is a Japanese experimental film that was shot in stylized, high-contrast black and white on 16mm . The film contains almost no dialogue, the protagonists remain nameless. The entire film is interspersed with industrial music by Chu Ishikawa , who was inspired by Einstürzende Neubauten and DAF . The camera work is hectic. The main location was Kei Fujiwara's apartment, where the film was shot within four months. During the post-production, however, the director noticed that he was still missing scenes and so it was an 18-month post-shoot.

Shin'ya Tsukamoto was inspired for his third film by the early works of David Cronenberg and his mutation of the flesh, as shown in Die Fliege or Videodrome . The film received two sequels, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) and Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2010).

reception

The film premiered at the FantaFestival in Rome, where it was recognized as best film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Tetsuo: The Iron Man . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2005 (PDF; test number: 102 582 DVD).
  2. ^ A b c Carsten Henkelmann: Review. Sense of View, January 21, 1999, accessed March 5, 2014 .