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Tetsuo
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Overview

User Rating:
7.1/10   5,340 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Shinya Tsukamoto (writer)
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Release Date:
1 July 1989 (Japan) more
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Plot:
A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body... more | full synopsis
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2 wins more
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(34 articles)
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Rust in peace... Brilliant but shocking for most people more (118 total)

Cast

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Tomorowo Taguchi ... Man
Kei Fujiwara ... Woman
Nobu Kanaoka ... Woman in Glasses
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Renji Ishibashi ... Tramp
Naomasa Musaka ... Doctor
Shinya Tsukamoto ... Metals Fetishist
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Tetsuo, the Iron Man (USA)
The Ironman
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Runtime:
67 min | Argentina:69 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Referenced in Little Red Riding Hood (2009/I) (V) more

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7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Rust in peace... Brilliant but shocking for most people, 28 December 2005
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Author: Tudor M from Bucharest

This movie can be explored in many ways: the relationship between human life and technology is the first which comes to mind. Then maybe this fits into a larger theme of industrialization. Still, there are several ways of interpreting each scene and at times I had the feeling that they try to show - or to produce a metaphor for - human emotions, such as cheating, sorrow, the will not to die alone. "And we can rust the whole world and scatter it into the dust of universe" You will certainly make what you want of this movie. You may understand that technology is evil, that industrialization takes our souls away, or that even in our worst moments we crave for closeness and we don't want to be alone. This is a special movie - so beware - it is not accessible to most people. There's a chance that you won't be able to think for yourself and that you'll expect some quick & nice Hollywood conclusions which you're not going to get - in which case, this movie will be a waste of your time.

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