Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Friday, September 20 - Thursday, October 3, 2024

TETSUO: THE IRON MAN is filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto’s unhinged hot take on humankind’s ongoing battle with technology; literally, as a man mutates into a walking, clanking man-machine that terrorizes himself and everyone around him. Warping elements of early Cronenberg, Lynch, and Raimi into a deliriously-paced cyberpunk cocktail, TETSUO is a body horror manifesto that’s fueled by techno-erotic adrenaline and wrought iron perversion. Unmissable.

Screening as part of our series Burning Chrome: Cyberpunk After Dark

• Country Japan
• Language Japanese with English Subtitles
• Year 1989
• Running Time 67 minutes
• Format DCP
• Distributor AGFA
• Director Shinya Tsukamoto
• Cast Tomoro Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Shinya Tsukamoto
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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