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Tetsuo: The Iron Man(Movie, 1989)

Original title: "鉄男" (Japanese/JA)
1h 7min | Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
Tetsuo: The Iron ManRating: 3.5/5 (with 224224 votes)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男, Tetsuo, 'iron man') is a 1989 Japanese tokusatsu science fiction horror film directed, written, produced, and edited by Shinya Tsukamoto. The film centers around an unnamed Japanese salaryman who wakes up to find pieces of metal sprouting from various parts of his body and becomes haunted by visions of metal-oriented sexual fantasies. As the man steadily becomes a hybrid of man and machine, he develops a connection with a victim from a hit-and-run accident, who is undergoing a similar transformation. The film was the first feature-length film by Tsukamoto after he spent his youth creating film shorts and entering Japanese experimental theatre. Through his theatre work, he met like-minded people to perform in plays and later short films such as Kei Fujiwara and Taguchi. Filming proved to be difficult with much of the cast and crew abandoning the production with only Taguchi and Tsukamoto arriving on set to finish the film. After winning the Grand Prize at the Fantafestival in Italy, the film grew in popularity in Japan, becoming a top seller on home video for non-ma... ()
Part of the Tetsuo Collection
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About Tetsuo: The Iron Man

A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.

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TETSUO: THE IRON MAN Trailer / VIDEO ALTAR IV 2019(Trailer, 0:54)

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Additional Information

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Production country: Japan
Plays in: Japan
Original language: Japanese (JA)
Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)
Translated into 17 languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Norwegian Bokmål (NB), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 07/01/1989
Screenwriter: Shinya Tsukamoto
Film Editor: Shinya Tsukamoto
Director of Photography: Kei Fujiwara, Shinya Tsukamoto
Composer: Chu Ishikawa
Costume designer: Kei Fujiwara
Production Designer: Shinya Tsukamoto
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Tetsuo: O Homem de Ferro"
"Tetsuo I. El hombre de hierro"
"Tetsuo, el hombre de hierro"
"Tetsuo"
"Tetsuo"
"Tetsuo - The First Cut"
"Tetsuo - O Homem de Aço"
"Тэцуо — железный человек"
"Тэцуо, железный человек"
"Tetsuo - The First Cut"
"Tetsuo I: The Iron Man"
"Tetsuo, the Iron Man"
"The Ironman"
Budget: 55,500 USD
Color: Black & White (B/W)

3 movies in the Tetsuo Collection

1989 Tetsuo: The Iron Man
1992 Tetsuo II: Body Hammer ("鉄男II BODY HAMMER")
2009 Tetsuo: The Bullet Man ("鉄男 THE BULLET MAN")

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