Japanese cyberpunk classic about a salary an who slowly morphs into an Iron Man. 67min imdb
Recap:
The worst happens straight at the beginning: the Metal Fetishist slices open his leg to insert a metal rod. Later he sees the maggots in the open wound, runs in panic and is hit by a car.
Then the Salaryman who has hit him grows a metal pimple, and then he has strange encounters first with a woman with glasses, then with his girlfriend. Slowly he turns into Iron Man, and then his girlfriend dies, impaled on his metal peepee.
And that was only the first half. In the second half Iron Man and the Fetishist have a lengthy confrontation, very anime style.
So this counts as a classic japanese cyberpunk movie, and I must say that I like it. Everything about it is unusual, it’s got strong images, an unreal mood, yadda yadda, insert everything that real reviewers write to tell you that a movie is good.
Of course, the story is rather thin and not easy to follow, but that’s okay. For me the movie was fresh and unlike the stuff that I’m used too, and I guess that I can see quite a few more of these before I go like, “oh no, what a conventional japanese cyberpunk”.
Some of the reviews I read claimed that this one was only for gore aficionados, but I don’t completely agree. As I said above, the worst part happened straight at the beginning. From then on the movie went more and more over the top, and the less real everything became, the less I was shocked by the violence. But so much is true: this is indeed a special interest movie. I guess that you don’t have to be a gore fan or edgelord, but it helps to be a nerd for weird stuff.
Movie 67min subtitled
Trailer
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