Tetsuo di shinya tsukamoto biography
Tetsuo di shinya tsukamoto biography
Tetsuo the iron man.
A Guide to Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan’s Greatest Cult Filmmaker
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As a series of retrospective releases based on the renowned director’s career comes out, AnOther takes a close look at five of the best works by Shinya Tsukamoto
TextJames Balmont
In 1989, Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: Iron Man came out of leftfield to win the best film award at FantaFestival in Rome, a watershed moment that permanently changed the fortunes of Japanese cinema thereafter.
An avant-garde, black-and-white art film about a man who painfully turns into metal, it introduced the world to a new breed of highly creative Japanese filmmaking in the wake of one of the most barren decades in the history of Japanese cinema.
With studios going bankrupt and audiences increasingly looking to foreign imports, Tetsuo suddenly declared a new beginning for the country’s entire film industry.
So closely is Tsukamoto tied to this moment that he is known almost exclusively for this