Tetsuo

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 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 was released in 1989 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 67 minutes.