Tetsuo 1 – The Iron Man (1989)
AKA: Tetsuo – The First Cut
Year: 1989
Directed by: Shinya Tsukamoto
Starring: Tomoro Taguchi (Man), Kei Fujiwara (Woman), Shinya Tsukamoto (First Man)
Country: Japan, Asian Cinema
Language: Japanese (English Subs)
Runtime: 01:07:17
Genres: Bizarre-Surreal, Body Modification, Self-Harm, Sexual-Violence against Men, Gore-Gruesome, Sci-Fi
Plot – Spoilers:
Scrap metal mutant humans!
A man inserts an iron pipe into his thigh after carving it open. The result shocks him and he runs into the streets wildly, where he is hit by a car. The driver of the car and his girlfriend hide the body in the woods and celebrate it with some outdoors sex. But soon, the driver develops a metal pimple which bursts gore when he tries to examine it. This is just the beginning of his descent into a spiral of paranoia and transformation. The first guy also turns up for a final confrontation. In between though, you have some delightful scenes of metal mutation set to some nice industrial music – like when the girlfriend develops a metal-snake-cock and cavorts around before sodomizing the guy, and some cool stopmotion-type scenes set in suburban streets.
At just over an hour, this is a surreal experience that most can afford, even if the bizarre, under normal circumstances, pisses you off.
This movie was pretty Metal!
watched this while drunk 10/10 ;p
Huh… it was interesting?
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I’m guessing Shinya Tsukamoto watched Eraserhead . . . A LOT.
an absolute banger. would watch again high on acid
this movies ass
Wait i remember reading a manga with the same name huh
This isn’t Marvel 😨
Awesome, loved the gore
Very cool and weird loved the soundtrack too
this was a deez nuts moment
bro really decided that fucking his girlfriend was more important than fixing the giant chunk of scrap metal in his arm lmao
Started to watch this and 15 mins into it I turned off. Didnt get it, made no sense to me. More a sci-fi theme than anything, just not to my taste. Yet to see a good Japanese film eventhough I have seen a few here. Maybe they just make crap films?
You want a taste of my sewage pipe?
Very surreal. I didn’t get what was going on half the time but it was very well done. The stop-motion was a nice touch as well
7/10
okay changed my mind !! i thought it was funny when that lady had a mf iron strap on, i will watch this again but skip the scary bits <3 hope ur having a nice day queen ! drink water, eat some food n remember to have some time away from ur screens bubs <3
bro i deadass nearly cried when he shoved that metal thing in his leg :(( why have i come to this site
This is a romance and you can’t tell me otherwise. Some of the best outsider-art cinema ever.
Awsome and Visceral, the weirdest cinema I’ve ever seen
Well, that was a…different. To say the least.