This film has lent itself to comparison with the work of Lynch and Cronenberg, as it tells its story using a violent array of flashbacks, fast-forwards and nightmarish dream sequences. The action centres around a young metal fetishist who tries to insert pieces of metal into his own skin. Running out into the street he is knocked down by a car and the accident gives him strange powers as his body begins to painfully mutate into a synergy of flesh and metal. Meanwhile the salaryman who ran him down finds his own body is also transforming into a metallic monster. This bizarre, sexual fantasy mixes black humour and sexual imagery with a hypnotic post-industrial soundtrack. In Japanese with English subtitles.
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ACMI Identifier
312454
Language
Japanese
Audience classification
R (18+)
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Surrealism in motion pictures
Crafts & Visual Arts → Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Crafts & Visual Arts → Surrealism in motion pictures
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Technology - Social aspects
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Fetishism
Fantasy & Science Fiction → Fantasy
Fantasy & Science Fiction → Science fiction films
Feature films → Feature films - Japan
Magic, Occult & Supernatural → Fantasy
Magic, Occult & Supernatural → Monsters
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Robots
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Technology - Social aspects
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)