Tetsuo
Movie
鉄男
1989/07/01
Character count2,597
Word count1,171
Unique words257
Words (1-occurrence)142
Unique kanji127
Kanji (1-occurrence)59
Difficulty beta
Moderate
External Rating
69 %

A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.

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