The Blind Dead
04-23-2007, 10:48 PM
In 1989, Japanese filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto created a movie that was so extraordinary that its impact on cinema is still felt today. It would be the work by which he would become both famous and infamous. That film was Tetsuo: The Iron Man, a unique and extreme film that would become the avatar for the entire subgenre of Asian cyberpunk cinema.
American cyberpunk films and Asian cyberpunk films tend to be wildly different, to the point of being almost completely different genres unto themselves. In the popular consciousness, when you talk about cyberpunk in America the first thing the majority of people think of seems to be Blade Runner or The Matrix. Few cyberpunk films from America approach the genre in the same way Asian films tend to. Whereas Western storytellers more-often-than-not view the genre as being rooted in the action and traditional science fiction spheres, Eastern movie maestros have notoriously looked at things a different way, throwing all convention out the window and casting more of an eye towards bizarro experimentalism and dramatic surrealism. Off the top of my head I can think of only one Western film that has captured and matched the Eastern cyberpunk aesthetic of dark and sensual...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000777.html)
American cyberpunk films and Asian cyberpunk films tend to be wildly different, to the point of being almost completely different genres unto themselves. In the popular consciousness, when you talk about cyberpunk in America the first thing the majority of people think of seems to be Blade Runner or The Matrix. Few cyberpunk films from America approach the genre in the same way Asian films tend to. Whereas Western storytellers more-often-than-not view the genre as being rooted in the action and traditional science fiction spheres, Eastern movie maestros have notoriously looked at things a different way, throwing all convention out the window and casting more of an eye towards bizarro experimentalism and dramatic surrealism. Off the top of my head I can think of only one Western film that has captured and matched the Eastern cyberpunk aesthetic of dark and sensual...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000777.html)