The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo

The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo (1987) is an early short film you can watch online on iFILM, shot on 8mm by Shinya Tsukamoto two years before Tetsuo: The Iron Man. A Japanese teenager discovers an electric pylon growing out of his back — a fact that might have stayed strange and harmless, except that cyborg vampires have plans for humanity and the pylon turns out to be central to them.

Forty-seven minutes of horror, comedy, and science fiction running simultaneously without a budget to smooth anything over. Tsukamoto himself appears on screen. For fans of Japanese experimental cinema, it is an essential early artifact; for everyone else, a genuinely strange ride. Stream The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo online on iFILM.