Great Film overall

Excellent, a Must See

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

'This film is not for everyone' is one of those empty sentences that gets thrown around with some kind of films. But if there is a film that fits the saying, "Tetsuo" is it. Utter bonkers, making no sense whatsoever (well, a kind of flimsy one), the movie is an almost silent film with amazing imagery but close to zero story.It all starts with a guy running around after sticking a metal rod on his leg. It all continues into lots of crazy moments that seem to revolve around a salary man that little by little becomes a kind of mixture between machine and human. Like your average Kafka. But with lots of more sexual innuendo (subtlety be damned). It is all quite interesting and shocking, but, even at just a little over 60 minutes, it becomes repetitive and some (or many) viewers will end up thinking: why the heck I am caring about this?, because the film seems to be more a study on monster creation than on telling anything. And that is also taking account the more than obvious idea of man becoming machine that runs throughout "Tetsuo"'s running time.As it is, it is fascinating, but it can't overcome its shortcomings.

This Japanese film was formerly in one of the editions of the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before Die, it is a film known to use the science-fiction subgenre "cyberpunk", focusing on "high tech low life", the weird poster for the film certainly got my attention. Basically a strange, known only as the "Metal Fetishist" (Shin'ya Tsukamoto), seems to have an insane obsession to stick pieces of scrap metal to his body. The man is out walking and gets hit, possibly killed, by a Japanese businessman, or "salaryman" (Tomorowo Taguchi), out driving with his girlfriend (Kei Fujiwara). Following this accident the businessman notices a piece of metal protruding from under his skin, it seems he is being slowly taken over by some kind of disease, his body is being turned into scrap metal. It becomes obvious that the man he hit with the car is not actually dead, he is his nemesis and is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fuelled transformation. Also starring Nobu Kanaoka as Woman in Glasses, Naomasa Musaka as Doctor and Renji Ishibashi as Tramp. This film reminds me of Eraserhead, a black and white nightmare brought to life, this is indeed another film like that, there are so much surreal and disturbing imagery, with metal parts destroying the body of a man, a penis turning into a rotating metal drill and trying to rape a woman with it, and lots of blood spill, it is a strange art house style cult movie that will appeal to those who like scary movies, and have strong stomachs, an interesting horror. Worth watching!

Once again, after watching a movie where the audience's general response seems to be either love/hate, I found myself stuck in the middle of the road.I really wanted to like this movie, and for a while I did. The bizarre and captivating imagery, sound effects, music, cinematography and the use of black and white all work together to create a nightmarish experience. There are some truly freaky scenes in here. Problem is, the movie drags in places, especially towards the end, where it seems to go on forever and gradually loses it's creepy, nightmarish feel, and the endless barrages of scrap metal thrown in my face starts to get tiresome. Simply put, when the movie is good, it's nightmarish, but when it's bad, it's boring as metal-man s**t.While Tetsuo has several scenes that are really effective, and the effects look pretty awesome, as the movie went on, I just found myself increasingly getting more and more bored with it. I don't know, maybe it'll grow on me if I give it a second chance, which I will probably do, because I have not seen anything like it before.

Tetsuo is considered like a masterpiece of cyberpunk in cinema history. The first thing i remarked was the soundtrack, it's an awesome one and fit perfectly with the movie. The movie is very disturbing because the protagonists are transformed by different metals, some tubing break out by the throat and when someone die there is a kind of mash around the body. There is a sex scene really disturbing where the man have sex with a "transformed-by-metal" girl but we understand at the end of this scene it's only a nightmare.Tetsuo is a good experimental movie, to see if you like cyberpunk style and disturbing movies.