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Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) is available on Kanopy with a participating library card. Also available to stream on ARROW.
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man
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You can watch Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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.
Tetsuo undergoes a terrifying metamorphosis as scrap metal replaces his flesh in a frantic, industrial nightmare. This hyperkinetic fever dream uses jagged editing and metallic clanging to turn a body-horror premise into a sensory assault.
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Director
Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast
Tomorowo Taguchi, Shinya Tsukamoto, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Naomasa Musaka, Renji Ishibashi
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man
You can watch Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) on Kanopy with a participating library card.
IMDb
7.0/10
RT Critics
78%
Director
Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast
Tomorowo Taguchi, Shinya Tsukamoto, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Naomasa Musaka, Renji Ishibashi
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