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"It’s not wrong to call Shinya Tsukamoto a master of horror, but it doesn’t quite capture the unbridled force of his artistic vision. An underground filmmaker who got his start in Japan’s punk super-8 scene in the 80s, he embraces the maggots, memory loss, and severed heads of the genre—and then keeps going. In formally striking works that range from the bloody to the bizarre (but are usually both), Tsukamoto grapples with the frailty of the human body under the stress of technofuturism and late capitalism.
From his widely adored cyberpunk breakout Tetsuo: The Iron Man to later works and rarely screened gems, this retrospective invites you into one of the most singular cinematic universes on the planet."