Book Description

Edgy, intense and overwhelming, Shinya Tsukamoto's films are nightmarish visions of a world where man's greatest enemy is his own environment of cold concrete and twisted technology. His debut film, the cyberpunk masterpiece, Tetsuo, The Iron Man, saw him compared to David Lynch, David Cronenberg and Ridley Scott. The film paved the way for an entire generation of Japanese directors, and also deeply influenced Quentin Tarantino and the Wachowski Brothers, among others. Illustrated with hundreds of stills, behind-the-scenes pictures and rare photographs from Tsukamoto's private collection, this was written with his full cooperation.

About the Author

Tom Mes is an internationally-recognized expert on Japanese film, and author of Agitator - The Cinema of Takashi Miike and co-author of The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film. He is the founder and editor of MidnightEye.com, the world's leading publication on Japanese cinema.