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Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
Japan 2009
produced by
Shinichi Kawahara, Masayuki Tanishima, Shinya Tsukamoto (senior), Masao Teshima (senior) for Kaijyu Theater, Asmik Ace
directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
starring Eric Bossick, Akiko Mono, Yuko Nakamura, Stephen Sarrazin, Tiger Charlie Gerhardt, Prakhar Jain, Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomoroo Taguchi, Michael Duncan, Alain Koji, Sou Fujita, Markus Wambsganss, Hajime Izuki, Dwayne Lawler, Aldo La Riviere, Yutaka Mishima, Getto, Masaki Kurusu, Shinichi Kawahara, Ian MacDougall, Michio Oishi, Yu Iwasaki, Masashi Arai, Rob Morrison, Taron Plaza, Asado, Masato Tsujioka, Ryota Nakao, Herve Chavassieux, Nayo Oliver, Manabu Yara, Takahiro Kandaka, Masato Tsujioka, Hajime Nakamura, Satoshi Hayashi, Kurt Common
written by Shinya Tsukamoto, Hisakatsu Kuroki, music by Chu Ishikawa
Tetsuo
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Anthony (Eric Bossick) lives as perfect a life as they come, he has a good
job, aloving wife in Yuriko (Akiko Mono), and he loves his five year old
son Tom (Tiger Charlie Gerhardt) more than anything else. And then his son
is killed, actually murdered by a car running him over intentionally
before Anthony's very eyes. The driver of the car is easily found out, but
it seems he's able to get away scot-free, so Yuriko urges Anthony to
avenge their son. And the rage that subsequently builds up in Anthony
makes him turn more and more into a metal monster, because you know his
mother (Yuko Nakamura) was part of a research program to turn people into
human weapons, and apparently tht's a trait tht's hereditary. Thing is,
the program has been scratched since and now the gouvernment tries to make
sure that all the test subjects and their offspring are secured/killed -
and suddenly, through no fault of his own, Anthony is turned from the
hunter to the hunted ...
Now if you expect Tetsuo: The Bullet Man to be as
visually and viscerally groundbreaking as
Tetsuo; The Iron Man, you'll probably be disappointed
- but then again, not that many movies were. Now compared to the
overbearing earlier film. this one is almost mainstream in story, blending
a revenge tale with body horror - but it's also still a film by Shinya
Tsukamoto, which in turn of course means this is nothing like mainstream,
there's some crazy imagery up there, some (often mental) perversion,
plenty of shock moments that defy mere jump scares - so for all those who
are looking for horror from the weird side of things, this is pretty much
a must-see.
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