MOVIE · 1989

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

HorrorSci-Fi67 min

An ordinary salaryman wakes to find metal pushing through his flesh. What begins as isolated eruptions turns into a full-body takeover, as his body twists toward something neither human nor machine and his mind fills with violent, metal-charged sexual visions he cannot control. The changes do not stay private for long. He becomes linked to a man injured in a hit-and-run, who is going through a similar transformation, and that connection pulls both of them toward a confrontation shaped by pain, desire, and rusting steel. Written and directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, the film turns city life and industrial waste into the source of the nightmare.