“A cyberpunk ERASERHEAD.” ? Virtually absent from theater screens since the 1990s, this underground classic from Japan is now showing in a brand new restoration from Oct 18-24th at Pop's!
Trailer:
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.
IN THE FILM:
A "metal fetishist" (Shin'ya Tsukamoto), 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 (Tomorowo Taguchi) and his girlfriend (Kei Fujiwara). 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.
1989| 71 min. | NR | Japan
Dir. Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Event Venue
Pop's Art Theater, 619 6th Ave NW, Rochester, MN 55901-2672, United States,Rochester, Minnesota
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