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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
Original name: 鉄男II BODY HAMMER
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Tetsuo II: Body Hammer is a 1992 Japanese science fiction/horror film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is a bigger-budget reworking of the same director's 1989 movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man, utilizing similar themes and ideas to the earlier film (a Japanese salaryman, played by cult actor Tomorowo Taguchi, finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.) It was not as well received as its predecessor but it did win the Critic's Award at the 3rd Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1992.
Style: disturbing, psychological, cyber, surreal, extreme horror, experimental, controversial, cult horror, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, kidnapping, body horror, cyborgs, violence, kaiju, androids and robots, superhuman powers, surrealism, androids, giant monster, trippy, big city, extreme, apocalypse, superhero, heroes, gang, supernatural, escapades, rivalry, society, chaos, danger, urban ...
Time: 90s
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
Keyword: reboot, gangsters

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Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
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Duration: 90 min.
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Duration: 99 min.
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18%
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Country: USA, Canada
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18%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Takeshi Honda (Riki Takeuchi) is a hard boiled cop ...
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