Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
A man's head and arm is covered in a large grotesque metallic mass.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byShinya Tsukamoto
Written by
  • Shinya Tsukamoto
  • Hisakatsu Kuroki
Produced by
  • Shinichi Kawahara
  • Masayuki Taneshima
Starring
  • Eric Bossick
  • Akiko Monō
  • Yuko Nakamura
  • Stephen Sarrazin
  • Shinya Tsukamoto
Cinematography
  • Shinya Tsukamoto
  • Takayuki Shida
  • Satoshi Hayashi
Edited by
  • Shinya Tsukamoto
  • Yuji Ambe
Music byChu Ishikawa
Production
companies
Distributed byAsmik Ace Entertainment
Release dates
  • 5 September 2009 (2009-09-05) (Venice)
  • 22 May 2010 (2010-05-22) (Japan)
Running time
79 minutes[1]
CountryJapan
LanguageEnglish[1]

Tetsuo: The Bullet Man is a 2009 Japanese cyberpunk body horror thriller film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto.[2] The film is a standalone sequel to Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992), and follows a man who transforms into a rageful metallic being after his son is killed in a car crash. It stars Eric Bossick, Akiko Monō, Yuko Nakamura, Stephen Sarrazin, and Tsukamoto. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival on 5 September 2009, and released in Japan on 22 May 2010, by Asmik Ace Entertainment.

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  2. ^ Newitz, Annalee (23 July 2009). ""Tetsuo: The Iron Man" Gets A Crazy English Sequel – Sdcc". io9. Retrieved 26 July 2009.