Japanese cyberpunk film Tetsuo: The Iron Man, directed by Shinya Tsukamoto and distributed by Japan Home Video, is a 1989 release. For his third film, which was made in the same low-budget, underground-production approach as his first two, this is an extraordinarily gory but also visually stunning fantasy. Tetsuo, a film about the hideous transformation of humanity into flesh-and-metal hybrids, is first and foremost an astonishing audiovisual experience, with a mind-bending score by Chu Ishikawa and appropriately exaggerated sound effects.
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Japanese cyberpunk film Tetsuo: The Iron Man, directed by Shinya Tsukamoto and distributed by Japan Home Video, is a 1989 release. For his third film, which was made in the same low-budget, underground-production approach as his first two, this is an extraordinarily gory but also visually stunning fantasy. Tetsuo, a film about the hideous transformation of humanity into flesh-and-metal hybrids, is first and foremost an astonishing audiovisual experience, with a mind-bending score by Chu Ishikawa and appropriately exaggerated sound effects.
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