Shinya Tsukamoto the chaotic and disturbing director who brought us Tetsuo the Iron Man, and Tetsuo : Body Hammer , is preparing to release in 2010 a third installment in this maniacal collection of industrial works called Tetsuo The Bulletman.
The first Tetsuo movie is centered around a buttoned-up Japanese businessman who accidentally rams his car into a cyberpunky ‘metal fetishist’ (Tsukamoto), whose jollies include transplanting metal parts into his body. After this encounter, the businessman begins inexplicably transforming into a metal man-machine, and soon finds himself merging identities (and bodies) with the similarly mechanized fetishist.
“Impressionistic and dark, the movie at times looks like an industrial music video. All the effects are stop-motion animation and prosthetics, which manage to capture the gooey, rusting look of a man halfway between office worker and deadly machine.”
In similar fashion, Tetsuo The Bulletman is abut an American man named Anthony who works in Tokyo and is married to a Japanese woman. Anthony morphs into Tetsuo when his son Tom is killed by the same metal fetishist who creates the Tetsuos in previous films.
Some could argue that this film is not true cyberpunk since there is not really a “punk” component of the movie’s antihero rebelling against authority or a totalitarian corporate regime set amongst futuristic dystopia. Nevertheless, this film is still considered one of the groundbreaking Japanese entries into the cyberpunk genre and can always satisfy your desire for industrial scenery.
Source: http://io9.com/5321543/tetsuo-the-iron-man-gets-a-crazy-english-sequel
