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Tetsuo - The Iron Man (Special Edition) Actors: Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara Director: Shinya Tsukamoto Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Closed-captioned Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Running Time: 67 minutes Studio: Tartan Video Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2005-07-19 Buy from Amazon |
 "Worth Seeing!"This film is definitely NOT for the faint of heart. If you like weird, offbeat, almost cheesy films you'll like this. It's a fun movie! Cool effects, interesting plot, and captivating visuals. It's worth seeing. As far as the "drummer" short that caomes after. That sucks. Stop it before it starts. "Eraserhead eats sushi!"This hyperkinetic film has a raw energy not unlike a film student's senior thesis. It's a dark, nightmarish tone poem, a really scary exploration of man's obssession and reliance on machines. As brilliant as Eraserhead, a stunningly original work. The sequel was dreaful! "Required viewing by videphiles"I use this video in my popular culture class. It is a serious cult film in Japan much like Rocky Horror is in the USA. It portrays the conflict between human/machine from a Japanese perspective. The violence serves much the same function as does that found in much ANIME. It is a profoundly disturbing film. As disturbing as the cyborgization of humanity.  "See the "sequal""Tetsuo's II features a less-than-obvious story as well- but it is better written and the effects are 10 times better than this one's (which is understandable). However, Tetsuo does have a lot of the same interesting visuals and is very much a film to go see with fellow film buffs at midnight showings at your local art-theater. An art-house film in every sense of the word, Tetstuo certainly isn't for everyone, and I don't think it's meant to seen alone. Truthfully, I find this film entertaining, I give it a 1 simply because it really isn't a good film, it tries too hard to be prolific and throws out anything that resembles a plot. This is supposedly a black comedy, and except for some sexual-inuendo, there's not much in there (could be a trans. problem though). Incidentally, the short, 'Drum Struck' is equally (if no more-so) weird. "It was worthless"People can try to call this movie art or say that it stands for something but it doesn't. It was a waste of time clean and simple. If you have an hour and ten minutes to waste read a book. |
