Shinya Tsukamoto's 1989 short feature TETSUO: THE IRON MAN borrows from Lynch's Eraserhead and Cronenberg's Videodrome—both films discussed in ETV's second season —and creates something entirely its own. Clocking in at a slender 67 minutes and blessedly shot in B&W to maximize gore while minimizing your hosts covering their eyes, Tetsuo is a cyberpunk-meets-splatterpunk anime come to life. Also discussed in this episode: Tsukamoto's encounters with Tarantino and Scorsese; comparisons to Evil Dead and Robert Mapplethorpe; a long digression on Japan's anxieties and its perpetually aging population; plus, could it possibly have influenced the Playstation 2 classic Katamari Damacy?
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man on IMDb Tetsuo: The Iron Man on Wikipedia Offscreen on Tetsuo 366 Weird Movies on Tetsuo Bleeding Cool on Tetsuo Washington Post review of Tetsuo Pixilation on Wikipedia Interview with Shinya Tsukamoto Dogs and Demons by Alex Kerr "Sexual Hysteria in Japan" at Blumhouse Hikikomori on Wikipedia Tetsuo and homosexuality The Phantom of Regular Size on YouTube Ninja Turtles cartoon transporter Katamari Damacy on WikipediaShow links:
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