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Bookmark this pageTetsuo II: Bodyhammer (1991)
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Significantly more accessible than Tsukamoto's first, black-and-white, 16mm foray into new-flesh-horror (Tetsuo: The Iron Man), this colour, hi-tech reworking of the original is a relentlessly inventive sci-fi cinepoem, whose story - again about a man suffering strange and deadly anatomical changes, which this time result partly from the rage he feels at his son being abducted - is largely an excuse for a series of virtuoso sequences based around the motif of physical/psychological mutation. Manga merges with Cronenbergian grotesquerie in a violent, frantic, technically audacious epic full of images that are alternately homoerotic and heart-stopping in their cruel brilliance.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Producer: Fuminori Shishido, Fumio Kurokawa
Cast: Tomoroh Taguchi, Nobu Kanaoka, Shinya Tsukamoto, Keinosuke Tomioka, Sujin Kim full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 81 mins
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