Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 sci-fi body horror written, directed, and edited by Shinya Tsukamoto. A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal. The film is the first feature-length title created by Tsukamoto, who has worked on a host of short films and made a name for himself in the Japanese experimental theatre scene. The main narrative is based on Tsukamoto's first short film, The Phanto