This month, Donna and Kris get suited up for “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” (1989), a Japanese film about a young salaryman getting bullied by a goth fetishist until they consummate their love and ride away into the sunset on a giant phallus.

CONTENT WARNINGS: Body Horror, Mutilation, Vehicular Manslaughter, Implied Sexual Assault, Genital Mutilation, Attempted Suicide, Animal Death, Misophonia

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SHOW NOTES:

Watch “Tetsuo: The Iron Man”: Prime, Youtube, Arrow, Google, Apple

“Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989),” IMDB.

“Tetsuo: The Iron Man,” Wikipedia.

“TSUKAMOTO: THE IRON MAN | The Creation of Tetsuo,” ZettaiJapan!, June 12 2020. 

“Tetsuo: The Iron Man and the dark side of transhumanism,” Sam Moore, Little White Lies, July 1 2019.

Mes, Tom (2005). Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto. Surrey, England: FAB Press. ISBN 1-903254-36-1.

Noé, Amber (27 November 2019). "Capturing a World in a Crystal Ball: A Conversation with Kei Fujiwara". Mubi. Retrieved 18 January 2020.

Mes, Tom; Sharp, Jasper (2005). The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film. Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 1880656892.