Tomoroh Taguchi Archives

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

Rating: ★★★★★

Nov 5, 2000Man-Machine Fusion

Extraordinary directorial debut from Japan's Shinya Tsukamoto, a frenetic, fetishistic and surreally deranged vision of man-machine fusion that feels like David Lynch having gone away and done a crash reading course of William Gibson

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto

Actors: Tomoroh Taguchi, Shinya Tsukamoto

Category: Science Fiction

5 November 200026 January 2020 by Roog

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)

Rating: ★★

Nov 5, 2001Man-Machine Fusion

Shinya Tsukamoto makes a better budgeted sequel to his breakthrough hit. The first film was a masterpiece of guerilla filmmaking but the same frenzied fetishism is missing here

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto

Actors: Tomoroh Taguchi, Shinya Tsukamoto, Sujin Kim

Category: Science Fiction

5 November 200126 January 2020 by Roog

The Door Into Summer (2021)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 7, 2023Time Travel

Robert Heinlein’s time travel novel gets a surprisingly faithful adaptation from Japan. This keeps the story’s double structure that tells one story and then with considerable conceptual dexterity reveals another hidden in the margins

Director: Takahiro Miki

Actors: Kento Yamazaki, Kaya Kiyohara, Naohito Fujiki, Natsuna Watanabe, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 August 202316 October 2025 by Roog