“Welcome to your new life.
I hope you’re enjoying it.”
Given the nature of Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” the idea of turning it into a series or franchise seems quite strange, to say the least. Not that there is anything wrong with hearing and seeing more of the world the Japanese filmmaker has shown us in the first one, but considering its experimental, industrial design, to name one aspect, you might wonder whether there is indeed more to be said which would legitimize more movies.
In some ways, these critical voices considered “Tetsuo II: The Body Hammer” as a confirmation of these doubts. Even though the look was still there and even creatively expanded by Tsukamoto, the idea of the machinist cult behind the transforming protagonist was not universally met with praise. You might even say it hurt the mysterious, powerful enigma behind the narrative of the two films,...
I hope you’re enjoying it.”
Given the nature of Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” the idea of turning it into a series or franchise seems quite strange, to say the least. Not that there is anything wrong with hearing and seeing more of the world the Japanese filmmaker has shown us in the first one, but considering its experimental, industrial design, to name one aspect, you might wonder whether there is indeed more to be said which would legitimize more movies.
In some ways, these critical voices considered “Tetsuo II: The Body Hammer” as a confirmation of these doubts. Even though the look was still there and even creatively expanded by Tsukamoto, the idea of the machinist cult behind the transforming protagonist was not universally met with praise. You might even say it hurt the mysterious, powerful enigma behind the narrative of the two films,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Shinya Tsukamoto's 'Tetsuo' sci-fi action film opens On Demand on Jan 19, Jan 21 in theaters. Check out the trailer for the film written by Tsukamoto (Nightmare Detective) alongside Hisakatsu Kuroki which stars Eric Bossick Akiko Monô, Yûko Nakamura, Stephen Sarrazin, Tiger Charlie Gerhardt, Prakhar Jain and Tsukamoto. The sci-fi action film follows calm office worker Anthony, son of an American father and a Japanese mother, lives in Tokyo with his wife Yuriko and their little son Tom. Since Anthony's mother died of cancer, his scientist father has been overly fearful for their health and rigidly subjects Anthony and Tom to monthly physicals...
- 1/11/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Shinya Tsukamoto's 'Tetsuo' sci-fi action film opens On Demand on Jan 19, Jan 21 in theaters. Check out the trailer for the film written by Tsukamoto (Nightmare Detective) alongside Hisakatsu Kuroki which stars Eric Bossick Akiko Monô, Yûko Nakamura, Stephen Sarrazin, Tiger Charlie Gerhardt, Prakhar Jain and Tsukamoto. The sci-fi action film follows calm office worker Anthony, son of an American father and a Japanese mother, lives in Tokyo with his wife Yuriko and their little son Tom. Since Anthony's mother died of cancer, his scientist father has been overly fearful for their health and rigidly subjects Anthony and Tom to monthly physicals...
- 1/11/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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