Shinya Tsukamoto's 1989 short feature TETSUO: THE IRON MAN borrows from Lynch's Eraserhead and Cronenberg's Videodrome—both films discussed in ETV's second season —and creates something entirely its own. Clocking in at a slender 67 minutes and blessedly shot in B&W to maximize gore while minimizing your hosts covering their eyes, Tetsuo is a cyberpunk-meets-splatterpunk anime come to life. Also discussed in this episode: Tsukamoto's encounters with Tarantino and Scorsese; comparisons to Evil Dead and Robert Mapplethorpe; a long digression on Japan's anxieties and its perpetually aging population; plus, could it possibly have influenced the Playstation 2 classic Katamari Damacy?

Film links:

• Tetsuo: The Iron Man on IMDb
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man on Wikipedia
• Offscreen on Tetsuo
• 366 Weird Movies on Tetsuo
• Bleeding Cool on Tetsuo
• Washington Post review of Tetsuo
• Pixilation on Wikipedia
• Interview with Shinya Tsukamoto
• Dogs and Demons by Alex Kerr
• "Sexual Hysteria in Japan" at Blumhouse
• Hikikomori on Wikipedia
• Tetsuo and homosexuality
• The Phantom of Regular Size on YouTube
• Ninja Turtles cartoon transporter
• Katamari Damacy on Wikipedia

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