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Synopsis

Rinku is a suicide-prevention counselor, living with her husband Shigehiko. He’s older than she, scrubbing things constantly, sexually indifferent. They sleep apart. During Tokyo’s rainy season, Iguchi, a photographer Rinku has counseled by phone, sends her pictures he has taken through her skylight: she’s wearing a short skirt, masturbating. He offers her the negatives if she’ll follow his instructions. She’s humiliated and agrees. He tells her he’s only giving her license to express her inner desires. He sends her into the night to walk on the wild side. Then, she asks a favor of him, and soon her husband receives phone calls and photographs. Where will this triangle lead? —IMDb

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Shin'ya Tsukamoto

Constant comparisons to such distinctive celluloid experimentalists as David Cronenberg and David Lynch may give the uninitiated an idea of what to expect aesthetically and thematically from the works of renegade Japanese filmmaker/actor Shinya Tsukamoto, though as complimentary as they may be, the comparisons ultimately don’t do justice to the remarkably original and frantic essence of his hauntingly jarring cinematic nightmares. From the cringe-inducing, hyper-kinetic body horror of Tetsuo: The Iron Man to the creeping deliberation of Gemini, Tsukamoto’s intriguing body of work has isolated critics and audiences while building a strong fan base who share his technophobe paranoia and cyber-punk sensibility.

Born in Shibuya, Tokyo, in 1960, Tsukamoto found inspiration early in his childhood from the television series Ultra-Q. Making his directorial debut via Super-8 film around the age of 14, the future director later found creative outlet in painting and theater. Briefly putting… read more

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Nafisbelmont

24Mar13

basically its about how one should embrace oneself and how life should be treated in the most erotic & arousing way. the use of blue filter in the rainy season of tokyo gives the audience an eerie yet, very seductive feeling, not only that, each frame is well composed and equally powerful. the kind of film that you want to watch when you're out of love. lol.

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Bitė

23Nov12

like mixed smells of drainage and flowers; blood and rain; disease that corrodes and eats the body and intercourse that recovers and feeds it

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bettyinabluemovie

29Feb12

some very delicious ideas, especially the usage of flash and the remote control of dildo as the erotic motivator or in another words as a way of touching. hate the husband though, very irritating.

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Harry Rossi

12Oct11

A bizarre, but really well made film. Very beautifully shot.

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The Auteurs Daily: Venice. Tetsuo the Bullet Man

By David Hudson on September 8, 2009

  "Brace yourself for disappointment," warns Todd Brown at Twitch. "As painful as it is to say, Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo the Bullet

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