Tetsuo: The Iron Man / Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer – Double Disc Set Blu Ray – Kei Fujiwara, Tomorowo Taguchi

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play   For the first time on blu-ray and remastered DVD Shinya Tsukamoto&39;s cult classics have been digitally restored from their original negatives to be presented in high definition in this double-disc set featuring brand new exclusive extras as well as Shinya Tsukamoto&39;s &39;Tetsuo&39; prototype short-film &39;The Adventures of Electric Rod Boy&39;  Tetsuo 1 A strange man known only as the “metal fetishist” who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese “salaryman” out for a drive with his girlfriend The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fueled transformation   Tetsuo 2 Body Hammer – Sequel to “Tetsou” this time has the Iron Man transforming into cyberkinetic gun when a gang of vicious skinheads kidnap his son When the skinheads capture him they begin to experiment on himspeeding up the mutative process!  EXTRAS Interview with Shinya Tsukamoto &39;The Adventures of Electric Rod Boy&39; – 45 minute short film Tetsuo 1 Original Trailer Tetsuo 2 Original Trailer

Double bill of the Japanese sci-fi cinepoems about mutations, both physical and psychological. In ‘Tetsuo – The Iron Man’ (1988) an office worker hits a metal fetishist with his car and then inexplicably begins to sprout metal shards from his body. Keen to understand the strange things that are happening to him, he journeys deep into a strange parallel world where humans perform DIY body alterations and women are fitted-out with replacement robotic arms. ‘Tetsuo 2 – Bodyhammer’ (1992) follows an unassuming office worker who suffers an extreme reaction when his son is kidnapped by members of a skinhead cult. His anger is such that he begins to mutate into a metallic killing machine capable of unleashing almost infinite violence upon anyone who opposes him.

For the first time on blu-ray, Shinya Tsukamoto’s cult classics have been digitally restored from their original negatives to be presented in high definition in this double-disc set featuring brand new exclusive extras as well as Shinya Tsukamoto’s ‘Tetsuo’ prototype short-film ‘The Adventures of Electric Rod Boy’ Tetsuo 1: A strange man known only as the ‘metal fetishist’, who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japan…