Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
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Tetsuo: The Bullet Man is the third film in Shinya Tsukamoto
's cyberpunk film series, and the first to be filmed in English.
team arrives and she is taken hostage. Anthony's transformation finishes its hold and he kills the S.W.A.T. team with bullets fired from his body.
Anthony's father then calls to him and his wife to explain everything: Anthony's mother was disgusted with the outcome of the Tetsuo project, having joined it as a way to help give crippled and sick people new bodies. When Anthony's mother realized that she would soon die she insisted that her husband recreate her as a Tetsuo android so that he may still have a child with his recreated wife. That child became Anthony, which means that Anthony and his late son were always part Tetsuo. Meanwhile Yatsu realizes that the only way he will find peace is to be shot by Anthony's body. Yatsu and Anthony have a final confrontation in which Anthony's wife is nearly killed. Anthony's transformation reaches it's pinnacle and he becomes a large metal beast with a cannon in his center. Yatsu provokes and threatens Anthony to shoot him. Finally Anthony denies this wish and instead consumes Yatsu whole into his metal body and then returns to human form. Five years later Anthony and his wife and new child have returned to a normal, contented life. As he stands before a mirror he hears Yatsu's final words: "You don't know what I'll do." However, when a group of young thugs attempt to intimidate him while walking down the street, rather than allow his anger to overtake him, he simply walks calmly and confidently past them.
and premiered in the US on April 25, 2010 as part of the Tribeca Film Festival
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entitled Theme for Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. Director Shinya Tsukamoto has stated that the collaboration with band leader Trent Reznor
marked the fulfillment of a long held ambition to work with the group. It was the first original work from the band in over two years.
Aside from plot, the nature of Anthony's transformation is a mix of both of his predecessors'. His gun-laden form is visually similar to the protagonist of Tetsuo II, but the slow buildup and accumulation of the transformations is more akin to the original.
Shinya Tsukamoto
is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad.-Biography:Tsukamoto started making movies at the age of 14, when his father gave him a Super 8 camera. He made a number of films, ranging...
's cyberpunk film series, and the first to be filmed in English.
Plot
Anthony is a man with an American father and a deceased Japanese mother living and working in Tokyo. One day his son is run over and killed by Yatsu, this film's version of "The Metal Fetishist". Shortly afterward Anthony begins to transform into metal. He discovers that the work of his scientist father may be the key to his transformation. In his father's house he discovers a secret room with files and papers detailing the Tetsuo Project as a way to turn people into androids. He also learns that his father met his mother while they each researched the project. Anthony's wife arrives but before she sees her transformed husband a S.W.A.T.S.W.A.T.
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team arrives and she is taken hostage. Anthony's transformation finishes its hold and he kills the S.W.A.T. team with bullets fired from his body.
Anthony's father then calls to him and his wife to explain everything: Anthony's mother was disgusted with the outcome of the Tetsuo project, having joined it as a way to help give crippled and sick people new bodies. When Anthony's mother realized that she would soon die she insisted that her husband recreate her as a Tetsuo android so that he may still have a child with his recreated wife. That child became Anthony, which means that Anthony and his late son were always part Tetsuo. Meanwhile Yatsu realizes that the only way he will find peace is to be shot by Anthony's body. Yatsu and Anthony have a final confrontation in which Anthony's wife is nearly killed. Anthony's transformation reaches it's pinnacle and he becomes a large metal beast with a cannon in his center. Yatsu provokes and threatens Anthony to shoot him. Finally Anthony denies this wish and instead consumes Yatsu whole into his metal body and then returns to human form. Five years later Anthony and his wife and new child have returned to a normal, contented life. As he stands before a mirror he hears Yatsu's final words: "You don't know what I'll do." However, when a group of young thugs attempt to intimidate him while walking down the street, rather than allow his anger to overtake him, he simply walks calmly and confidently past them.
Release
It premiered on 5 September 2009 as part of the Venice Film FestivalVenice Film Festival
The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...
and premiered in the US on April 25, 2010 as part of the Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
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Soundtrack
The closing credits of the film feature an original track by industrial rock band Nine Inch NailsNine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
entitled Theme for Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. Director Shinya Tsukamoto has stated that the collaboration with band leader Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, and leader of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. Reznor is also a member of How to Destroy Angels alongside his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross. He was previously associated with bands Option 30,...
marked the fulfillment of a long held ambition to work with the group. It was the first original work from the band in over two years.
Merchandise
Kotobukiya released the official Bullet Man Real Figure on the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International.Relation to the other films
In terms of plot, Tetsuo: The Bullet Man shares more in-common with its direct predecessor, Tetsuo II, than either film share with the original. It is nearly identical, from the motive of the protagonist (the death of a child) to the origin (Created by his father). However, the film features unique elements separating it from the others (aside from the language). It is the only film in the series where the Metal Fetishist character does not also become a living-metal creature. It is also the only film to not include a pseudo-supernatural explanation for the character's transformation.Aside from plot, the nature of Anthony's transformation is a mix of both of his predecessors'. His gun-laden form is visually similar to the protagonist of Tetsuo II, but the slow buildup and accumulation of the transformations is more akin to the original.