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Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Original title: Tetsuo

“Metal invades the flesh. Murder consumes the mind.”

1989 · 1 h 7 min
Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
HorrorSci-Fi

Cast

Tomoroo Taguchi Kei Fujiwara Nobu Kanaoka Shin'ya Tsukamoto Naomasa Musaka Renji Ishibashi

Credits

Written by: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Cinematography: Kei Fujiwara Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Music: Chu Ishikawa
Produced by: Shin'ya Tsukamoto

Plot

A salaryman slowly turns into a mass of metal after an encounter with a metal fetishist, in a black-and-white, nightmarish film about the fusion of man and machine.

Sinekatalog’s take

A frenzied, industrial cult classic.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.9 / 10 (29,637 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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