Tetsuo

This is a movie that springs from all the fantasy entertainment Japanese kids grow up with: Godzilla movies, sci-fi animation, manga comic strips and 'hardcore' rock music. In Tsukamoto's hands, these childhood influences mature into fantasies with a more adult shading: dark sexual fantasies, fantasies of brutal violence, fantasies of molecular mutation, apocalyptic fantasies. Not for nothing have Tokyo critics referred to Tsukamoto as 'Japan's answer to Sam Raimi, David Cronenberg and David Lynch'.