Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 67 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- dystopia
- transformation
- fetishism
- gore
- cyberpunk
- black and white
- romantic
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Tomorowo Taguchi
Salaryman
Shinya Tsukamoto
Metal Fetishist
Kei Fujiwara
Girlfriend
Nobu Kanaoka
Woman in Glasses
- Naomasa Musaka — Doctor
- Renji Ishibashi — Tramp
- Directed
- Shinya Tsukamoto
- Written
- Shinya Tsukamoto
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 722 ratings
- Studio
- Kaijyu Theater
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1989 · You’re hereTetsuo: The Iron Man
Where it starts.
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
1992
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
