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Grotesque stop-motion effects, rapid image sequences, jerking of the handheld camera, and a throbbing industrial soundtrack turn Shin’ya Tsukamoto’s cult film into a manic-aggressive horror trip that overwhelms all the senses.
A disturbed man with a compulsion to mutilate his body with scrap metal is hit by a car. The businessman driving it soon realizes he’s being stalked by this “metal fetishist” and that his body is mutating into a machine.
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After the film: Q&A with Shin’ya Tsukamoto
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Meet the director
Shin’ya Tsukamoto
Shin’ya Tsukamoto has been a director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and actor in numerous films. He shot to fame with his first feature film, TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989). Most of his films, including FIRES ON THE PLAIN (2014), KILLING (2018) and SHADOW OF FIRE (2023), premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. In 2016, Tsukamoto starred in Martin Scorsese's SILENCE.