Film Series
Metamorphosis: The Films of Shinya Tsukamoto
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.
Metal consumes man in this massively influential cyberpunk body horror masterpiece.
A punk-noir tale of one man’s descent into the Tokyo underworld in search of a gun.
A grotesque machine-monster battles a gang of skinhead cyborgs in this cyberpunk thriller.
Tsukamoto brings his exploration of physical and psychic metamorphosis into the boxing ring.
A visually stunning and unsettling story where past secrets are hidden in the human body.
Tsukamoto’s second feature, about a possessed schoolgirl, is an explosion of style and gore.
A doctor and his doppelganger face off in this hyper-stylized tale of class divisions.
The cyberpunk master brings his iconic uninhibited style to the classic samurai film.
A platonic marriage is disrupted by an anonymous voyeur in this stylized erotic thriller.
A single mother sees doubles of everyone in this hallucinogenic work of psychological horror.
A kid battles punk vampires and a man is trapped in a hole in these career-spanning shorts.
A claustrophobic portrait of the horror and insanity of war during the Japanese retreat.