Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

Rage turns flesh into steel. Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) is Shinya Tsukamoto's cyberpunk horror, ready to watch online on iFILM. A quiet Tokyo salaryman loses his young son to a gang of street thugs, and that loss rewrites his body.

Grief and fury mutate him from the inside. Muscle hardens into iron, his arm sprouts barrels and pipes, and the gentle office worker becomes a walking cannon. The angrier he gets, the less human flesh is left. The harder he hunts the kidnappers, the more monstrous the weapon he is turning into.

This is the color follow-up to the black-and-white Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) that made Tsukamoto a cult name. Forget a conventional score: Chu Ishikawa fills the soundtrack with clanging industrial noise while the editing jackhammers from shot to shot. Eighty minutes of dense metallic nightmare, closer to performance art than a standard creature feature. For fans of Japanese underground and body horror, it is essential. Stream Tetsuo II: Body Hammer online on iFILM.