i saw Tetsuo at 16, found the trailer on early youtube in 2010. i was completely transfixed by it. jumped thru some hoops ordering the dvd thru my local sam goodys. I payed 30.99 for it. my jaw just hung open the whole time. an hour felt like 3, pure assault on the senses. I loved it. i showed all my friends and they still mention it to me 10+ years later. it wasnt until i showed another friend a year or two ago that the story of the film so much more clearer to me. i feel i get somethin new out of it everytime i watch it. Tsukamoto is still probably my favorite director
I never knew how much Shinya went through, all I knew was his rough relationship with his father and it's a shame his father was never supportive of his work despite being it extremely weird. I truly believe they never made up after him basically disowning Shinya.
This reminds me of my days as a film student. The Bullet Man was coming out and for my Video Editing Final, which was making a short film, I made my own Tetsuo film dubbing it as Trapped Liquid Crystal. However, when they showed it at the end of the year as a showcase, they didn't turn down the volume, but people told me that just added to the chaos in a positive way. So I succeeded. It's cringe to me now, and makes me think "I've could have done it better than I did in the past," but it's a highlight in my life and the best part was that my film, along with others that did VFX, it started a new Visual Effects Class at my college which was never done before.
Thank you for the video! I've heard of this movie only a couple of days ago, watched it almost immediately and I can see why it has so much audience. I don't think I can put my feelings into words, but this movie just... Resonates on some deeper level. And I'm grateful that you told the history of its making. It now seems almost like a miracle that it even exist, and this is definitely worth appreciating.
honestly not that bad a metaphor. sometimes you come up with an interpretation of a film that was never quite intended by the creator, but it works anyway and you just run with that. this kinda seems like such a time. i like it!
Thanks, learned a lot from that. I'd suggest that any fan of "Tetsuo" look up Ishii Sogo's "Gyakufunsya Kazoku" ("The Crazy Family", though "The Family That Went Ballistic" would be a better translation). Not only is it great in its own right, it looks to have been directly influential on "Tetsuo".
You actually hit the nail on the head. Not only has Tsukamoto cited Ishii's "Burst City" as in influence on Tetsuo, but they also went to the same University! (Ishii was a senior while Tsukamoto was a freshmen)
@@ZettaiJapan Rewatched "Gyakufunsya Kazoku" just last night, and was struck again not only how great it is on its own, but in the echoes that it seems to make in Tsukamoto's work. That whole idea of destruction as a doorway to rebirth, implied in "Tetsuo" and clear at the end of "Body Hammer". Very Buddhistic. A couple of random observations: The scene where Katsuhiko tries to give everyone the poisoned coffee, he's wearing a dark suit and a (mostly, it has stripes) white tie. Reminiscent of what a man wears to a Japanese wedding? Grandpa's rank insignia on his uniform: senior private. Lower than I would have assumed, but the way the Imperial Army worked, a senior private was a plenty big fish in a small pond (just look at "Heitai Yakuza"). Would he have carried a sword? Maybe he was a section-leader? Dunno, but given the surreal elements, even if not I'm not bothered. And, not a new observation, but the ending sequence showing them doing just what they had been doing initially . . . but outdoors, with a definite sense of liberation coming from the music. Their personalities liberated by having destroyed the "structure" of the house? Perhaps, feels a bit like what Sono was getting at in "Noriko no Shokutaku" (though Noriko at least seems to be retrapped at the end of that), but the double meaning of "structure" in English may not map well onto Japanese, so I'm hesitant. Still, doing what you do for your own reasons rather than what society expects feels much like the Japanese countre-culture I admire.
Fantastic video. You really did this film justice, kind of annoyed it took me this long to watch this because it’s honestly excellent. Also, thank you for including the Rodger Swan clip.
Great video! I attended UC Berkeley from 1985-1989. I remember walking into the student Co-op called Barrington Hall and hearing Einsturzende Neubauten (for the first time) blasting in the large dining room. I had no idea what the hell I was listening to but it resonated in me to the core. I had the exact same reaction to Tetsuo the Iron Man. Bullet Ballet might be my favorite Tsukamoto film. Suicide Club is another brilliantly disturbing Japanese film that is vastly under-rated.
RIP Roger Swan.. Swans Japanese Horror Reviews was one of the first channels i watched reviews of on youtube.. was so sad back in the day when i found he passed. iv never forgotten him
Saw this film years ago and from It I went and nearly bought all of Tsukamotos works, incredible stuff. I love his style of work from snake of June to Bullet Ballet (one of my other favorites). His style is fast aggressive and entirely unique. Nightmare Detective 1 and 2 are also masterpieces
Every few minutes of my first viewing of Tetsuo, I was asking and yelling “Hold on what the fuck?!” and wanting to throw up and I will certainly never forget this movie
I watched House for the first time last month. It kept bothering me because I knew the theme song from somewhere and I just realized it's because you kept using it in videos.
Aw you didn't really touch in his acting career though ? I just got Maribito on DVD for my birthday and it's the first time I've been able to watch since like 2006? I just couldn't find it online for so long. But now I have it~
I did consider it, but since this was mainly focused on Tetsuo I felt like it didn't really fit. Still Tsukamoto's acting career alone is very impressive, and Marebito is definitely one of his best performances in a film he didn't direct.
Love the video, Morlock. Keep up the good work. I recently got the box set as a birthday gift from my girlfriend. So this was just another unexpected surprise.
This was a great video about a legendary movie, good work. (Found your channel from the Marebito video, no one talking about that movie. Also, RIP rodgerswan)
Shinya invested $2000 in a 16mm camera and 10 rolls of black and white film. I dont think he had much more budget. Yet, the movie doesn’t feel like no-budget.
I don know i just live smwhr in south south east f europe. However, things that are made in japan had always been fgreat. Like chainsaws and automobiles- vote for japan
Thank you for this amazing video on Tetsuo, also just watched Tokyo Fist for the first time and loved it. Question btw, what is the track beginning at 5:23? I am familiar with the cover being a blue sphere and also Japanese but could be wrong? Thanks!
I'm still wondering about some references to the sleazy saxophone tune that plays right before the car crash and when the Fetishist and the Salaryman are joining in their "metal womb". Does anyone have any clues? I've been wondering about this for ages
It's from a Japanese documentary called Basic Tsukamoto. It goes into a lot of background about Tetsuo and his film in general (up until Vital I believe). It's an interesting watch.
@@Hambuga97 don't come after me I do not want know who's the head doctor of the higashikata family so please do not charge my desk with connetek energy and do not target me .
i saw Tetsuo at 16, found the trailer on early youtube in 2010. i was completely transfixed by it. jumped thru some hoops ordering the dvd thru my local sam goodys. I payed 30.99 for it.
my jaw just hung open the whole time. an hour felt like 3, pure assault on the senses. I loved it. i showed all my friends and they still mention it to me 10+ years later.
it wasnt until i showed another friend a year or two ago that the story of the film so much more clearer to me. i feel i get somethin new out of it everytime i watch it.
Tsukamoto is still probably my favorite director
This makes Tetsuo the iron man even more of a masterpiece.
I never knew how much Shinya went through, all I knew was his rough relationship with his father and it's a shame his father was never supportive of his work despite being it extremely weird. I truly believe they never made up after him basically disowning Shinya.
This reminds me of my days as a film student. The Bullet Man was coming out and for my Video Editing Final, which was making a short film, I made my own Tetsuo film dubbing it as Trapped Liquid Crystal. However, when they showed it at the end of the year as a showcase, they didn't turn down the volume, but people told me that just added to the chaos in a positive way. So I succeeded. It's cringe to me now, and makes me think "I've could have done it better than I did in the past," but it's a highlight in my life and the best part was that my film, along with others that did VFX, it started a new Visual Effects Class at my college which was never done before.
That sounds awesome dude
This is a masterpiece that is not for everyone.
It’s everything I want out of Eraserhead and Cronenberg, with a more unhinged, dark, and sporadic film style. It’s a god damn masterpiece.
Seriously this guys' dad was like "If you ain't first you're last"
This is one of the best films ever made in Japan (One of my favorites), and this is one of the best videos on the subject!
Agreed
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One of the best films ever made, if not the best.
Shinya Tsukamoto is definitely one of my fave directors and highly influential on my own work, tetsuo the iron man really shaped my imagination
This show would not be possible without viewers like you!
Thank you!
Thank you for the video! I've heard of this movie only a couple of days ago, watched it almost immediately and I can see why it has so much audience. I don't think I can put my feelings into words, but this movie just... Resonates on some deeper level.
And I'm grateful that you told the history of its making. It now seems almost like a miracle that it even exist, and this is definitely worth appreciating.
Great video, my dude, and I say this as a full blown Tsukamoto fan myself. Thanks for all the research and historical context, your care shows.
I've always thought that the metal of Tetsuo: The Iron Man was a metaphor for trauma
honestly not that bad a metaphor. sometimes you come up with an interpretation of a film that was never quite intended by the creator, but it works anyway and you just run with that. this kinda seems like such a time. i like it!
Holy shit, you got his early obscure photos and footages. I can’t believe you managed to have Denchu Kozo’s theater version.
Not easy to find. Never liked Denchu though.
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Thanks, learned a lot from that.
I'd suggest that any fan of "Tetsuo" look up Ishii Sogo's "Gyakufunsya Kazoku" ("The Crazy Family", though "The Family That Went Ballistic" would be a better translation). Not only is it great in its own right, it looks to have been directly influential on "Tetsuo".
You actually hit the nail on the head. Not only has Tsukamoto cited Ishii's "Burst City" as in influence on Tetsuo, but they also went to the same University! (Ishii was a senior while Tsukamoto was a freshmen)
@@ZettaiJapan Rewatched "Gyakufunsya Kazoku" just last night, and was struck again not only how great it is on its own, but in the echoes that it seems to make in Tsukamoto's work. That whole idea of destruction as a doorway to rebirth, implied in "Tetsuo" and clear at the end of "Body Hammer". Very Buddhistic.
A couple of random observations: The scene where Katsuhiko tries to give everyone the poisoned coffee, he's wearing a dark suit and a (mostly, it has stripes) white tie. Reminiscent of what a man wears to a Japanese wedding?
Grandpa's rank insignia on his uniform: senior private. Lower than I would have assumed, but the way the Imperial Army worked, a senior private was a plenty big fish in a small pond (just look at "Heitai Yakuza"). Would he have carried a sword? Maybe he was a section-leader? Dunno, but given the surreal elements, even if not I'm not bothered.
And, not a new observation, but the ending sequence showing them doing just what they had been doing initially . . . but outdoors, with a definite sense of liberation coming from the music. Their personalities liberated by having destroyed the "structure" of the house? Perhaps, feels a bit like what Sono was getting at in "Noriko no Shokutaku" (though Noriko at least seems to be retrapped at the end of that), but the double meaning of "structure" in English may not map well onto Japanese, so I'm hesitant. Still, doing what you do for your own reasons rather than what society expects feels much like the Japanese countre-culture I admire.
Amazing video! One of my favorite films and I just want to thank you for making this! Your channel is SO underrated!
Excellent documentary. Totally loved Iron Man. Will watch more Tsukamoto films! Thank you!
Fantastic video. You really did this film justice, kind of annoyed it took me this long to watch this because it’s honestly excellent.
Also, thank you for including the Rodger Swan clip.
Rodger is the reason this channel exists, and I'm happy that I had an opportunity to tribute him in this.
Great video! I attended UC Berkeley from 1985-1989. I remember walking into the student Co-op called Barrington Hall and hearing Einsturzende Neubauten (for the first time) blasting in the large dining room. I had no idea what the hell I was listening to but it resonated in me to the core. I had the exact same reaction to Tetsuo the Iron Man. Bullet Ballet might be my favorite Tsukamoto film. Suicide Club is another brilliantly disturbing Japanese film that is vastly under-rated.
RIP Roger Swan.. Swans Japanese Horror Reviews was one of the first channels i watched reviews of on youtube.. was so sad back in the day when i found he passed. iv never forgotten him
Man congratulations best video about Tetsuo in all RUclips
My guilty pleasure was renting this movie on dvd from Hastings once a month.
Sweet video, man. Nice to see you talk about Tsukamoto.
I have the whole box set Haven’t an opened it yet so excited to Own it can’t wait for your put and review🔥
Have fun! Solid Metal Nightmares is incredible
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thre's a sequal called tetsuo 2: hammer bodey
Such a unique watching experience. Thanks for making this!
Saw this film years ago and from It I went and nearly bought all of Tsukamotos works, incredible stuff. I love his style of work from snake of June to Bullet Ballet (one of my other favorites). His style is fast aggressive and entirely unique.
Nightmare Detective 1 and 2 are also masterpieces
What a great vid... Makes me love tsukamoto's work even more... Keep it up man!
i started to cry when you brought up Rogers review D: i miss him/his content so much
Wow, how cool and fitting that Tsukamoto worked on the original commercial for the Casio-SK1
you did such a great investigation! you were really brought some interesting contexts and def makes the film more interesting to me.
Great video. BTW even Quentin Tarantino jumped on the Tetsuo van wagon, he actually was producing Tetsuo in America with Tsukamoto directing.
This is a great behind the scenes document about the iron man
Every few minutes of my first viewing of Tetsuo, I was asking and yelling “Hold on what the fuck?!” and wanting to throw up and I will certainly never forget this movie
Thank you for making this!
Thanks for sharing this man's story. Very interesting and fascinating.
Interesting to think this guy would later form the avengers
Kei Fujiwara's films Organ and ID are def worth a look for people who admire Tsukamoto's films
A must-see for any GWAR fan
Amazing video!!! Made me appreciate the film a whole lot more.
Shinya Tsukamoto is my hero.
an amazing video, very informative and well made. i instantly fell in love with Tetsuo when i first watched it. thank you for making this! :)
I watched House for the first time last month.
It kept bothering me because I knew the theme song from somewhere and I just realized it's because you kept using it in videos.
I grow up with this movie
This is the only good video about this movie you're amazing thanks!!
Awesome! This may be one of your best videos.
Tomorowo Taguchi, the lead actor, is super famous in Japan for playing Garrison in the Japanese dubbed version of South Park!
Aw you didn't really touch in his acting career though ? I just got Maribito on DVD for my birthday and it's the first time I've been able to watch since like 2006? I just couldn't find it online for so long. But now I have it~
I did consider it, but since this was mainly focused on Tetsuo I felt like it didn't really fit.
Still Tsukamoto's acting career alone is very impressive, and Marebito is definitely one of his best performances in a film he didn't direct.
Love the video, Morlock. Keep up the good work. I recently got the box set as a birthday gift from my girlfriend. So this was just another unexpected surprise.
Fantastic video. Works as perfect companion piece to the film itself
One of my favorites. I watched one of the sequels, wasn't quite as memorable. Thanks, this was very informative.
Great video, love Tetsuo.
Can't believe this is all but just another adaptation
amazing video
Amazing video. Thank you.
This was a great video about a legendary movie, good work. (Found your channel from the Marebito video, no one talking about that movie. Also, RIP rodgerswan)
Best horror film of all time
A phenomenal movie
That link to jodorowsky, I didn't know about that! Good video !
Rodger Swan always makes me cry
I wonder if Tsukamoto rubbed the success in his father's face having proved him wrong, most likely he didn't but I bet he thought about it.
I doubt it. People respect their parents in Japan and generally Asia. Unlike in western countries.
Love the last bit in your documentary / review. The dick-drill did it for me as well. An instant fan of TETSUO!!!
27:38 ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY HAD PIZZA WITH SHINYA TSUKAMOTO!!!!!!!11111111
Excelent video! Thank you so much!
Shinya invested $2000 in a 16mm camera and 10 rolls of black and white film.
I dont think he had much more budget.
Yet, the movie doesn’t feel like no-budget.
Great video!
great work on the video!
Awesome video!!
liked &subscribed, thank you for your work & work ethic. best wishes m8
1:59 dunkey talking
Groovy.
"...Alejandro Jodorowsky." Because OF COURSE.
I don know i just live smwhr in south south east f europe. However, things that are made in japan had always been fgreat. Like chainsaws and automobiles- vote for japan
You think Billy Idol knew about this movie? Cuz a lot of these scenes look like scenes from the music video to "Shock to the System"
Thank you for this amazing video on Tetsuo, also just watched Tokyo Fist for the first time and loved it. Question btw, what is the track beginning at 5:23? I am familiar with the cover being a blue sphere and also Japanese but could be wrong? Thanks!
Have you ever seen the cable access show "The Hypnotic Eye"?
Upvote for having Emer Prevost / Helsing666 on. RIP
I'm still wondering about some references to the sleazy saxophone tune that plays right before the car crash and when the Fetishist and the Salaryman are joining in their "metal womb".
Does anyone have any clues?
I've been wondering about this for ages
super interesting!
Would you consider doing something on Kei Fujiwara's films, such as Organ and Id?
さあ 来い!
"SAA KOI!!"
He definitely borrowed elements from David Chronenberg's films and David Lynch films like Eraserhead... Yet, it's a masterpiece in its own right.
does anyone have a link for the interview where the clips like 5:09 come from? I'm writing an essay n wanna reference some of what he says tyyy
It's from a Japanese documentary called Basic Tsukamoto.
It goes into a lot of background about Tetsuo and his film in general (up until Vital I believe). It's an interesting watch.
thre's a sequal called tetsuo 2: hammer bodey
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ???
And tetsuo the bullet man. All are great
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@@goldenalker4232 are you.... pursuing me?
Fucking amazing Review! Thank you
i are 2 scared too watch
1:42 Oh shit bros
Song at 16:30?
Arguments? Japanese people argue?
The voices you picked don't really fit the characters they are supposed to represent. End up being cringy. Other then that it's a great video.
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Howdy! Is there any email or ig where someone could contact you at?? 😀
You can check out my twitter @TheMorlock or email me at ZettaiJapanYT@gmail.com!
@@ZettaiJapan Thanks a bunch!!! I've just emailed you 😀
Great video!