“Welcome to your new life. I hope you're enjoying it.” Given the nature of Shinya Tsukamoto's “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” the idea of turning it into a series or...
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“You cannot beat concrete.” Considering the link between spirit and body has been one of the main themes in his work, perhaps it was only a matter of time...
“I will soon wake up and the pain will be gone.” For many years Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto had experimented with variations of of the same theme: the...
“Pull the trigger!” “Do it yourself.” The link between the physical body and its environment has always accompanied Shinya Tsukamoto's body of work. Like the...
“If Tetsuo is my first-born son, then Hiruko is my first daughter.She is more polite and was born with the wish to be loved by others.” (Shinya Tsukamoto)...
By Jaim Cleeland This essay will examine how the male body is portrayed in Tetsuo: Iron Man (Dir. Tsukamoto, S., 1989) and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (Dir...
20 of the contributors of Asian Movie Pulse have voted the 20 Best Films of 2018, resulting in what we consider a great selection, both regarding the top and...
Can (intense) violence be used to communicate a message about antiviolence? If Shinya Tsukamoto begun giving a reply to this question with “Fires on the...
Based on the novel Nobi by Natto Wada, the original, 1959 film, instigated much controversy in the west, for its grotesqueness and the fact that it portrayed...
As we mentioned in the review of the first part of the trilogy, the influence of Kitano was small but significant. This time, however, it is much more evident...