Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Dawn on a rain-slicked Tokyo backstreet. A man sprays molten scrap into open sores, melts into flickering neon. Two lovers flee his collapsing body under a salvage crane. The iron begins inside him, spreads like rust through veins.

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Shinya Tsukamoto directed Tetsuo: The Iron Man in 1989. See Shinya Tsukamoto's full filmography, where to start with Shinya Tsukamoto, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shinya Tsukamoto.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man was released in 1989 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 67 minutes.