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Shinya Tsukamoto (塚本 晋也, Tsukamoto Shin'ya, born January 1, 1960) is a Japanese filmmaker and actor. With a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad, Tsukamoto is best known for his body horror/cyberpunk film Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), which is considered the defining film of the Japanese Cyberpunk movement, as well as for its companion pieces Tetsuo II: Body Hammer ...
Shin'ya Tsukamoto. Actor: Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Shin'ya Tsukamoto was born on 1 January 1960 in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor and director, known for Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), A Snake of June (2002) and Tokyo Fist (1995).
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男, Tetsuo, 'iron man') is a 1989 Japanese science fiction horror film directed, written, produced, and edited by Shinya Tsukamoto.The film centers around an unnamed Japanese salaryman who wakes up to find pieces of metal sprouting from various parts of his body and becomes haunted by visions of metal-oriented sexual fantasies.
May 6, 2020 · 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 ...
Killing (斬、, Zan) is a 2018 Japanese drama film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It was selected to be screened in the main competition section of the 75th Venice International Film Festival . [1] [2]
To celebrate the launch of a new J-horror collection on BFI Player, one of Japan’s greatest cult filmmakers Shinya Tsukamoto, joins writer Tom Mes to discuss...
Feb 19, 2015 · A case in point is 55-year-old Japanese multi-hyphenate filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto. Although his professional debut feature—the independently produced sensory assault Tetsuo the Iron Man (89)—turned 25 years old last year, Tsukamoto’s career has been defined ever since by its minimalist, cyberpunk aesthetic. One reason for this may be ...
Shinya Tsukamoto interview: We spoke to the real star of Martin Scorsese’s Silence. The cult actor-director had to lose weight, toil in mud and be blasted by waves for his role
Oct 23, 2002 · One of the most important names in contemporary Japanese cinema, Shinya Tsukamoto has done groundbreaking work in arousing international attention for Japanese film. When his still powerful, independently made, black-and-white Tetsuo: the Iron Man (1989) toured an unprecedented number of festivals in the late 1980s and early 1990s, many western ...
One of the most distinctive and celebrated names in modern Japanese cinema, there’s no other filmmaker quite like Shinya Tsukamoto.
