Cyberpunksemestern fortsätter i Japan där vi tar ett grepp på den japanska versionen av cyberpunk och genrens nyckelverk, Shinya Tsukamotos “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” från 1989.
Vi nämner, bland mycket annat:
Tokyo Fist (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1995), Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1992), Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982), Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988), Crazy Thunder Road (Sogo Ishii, 1980), Burst City (Sogo Ishii, 1982), Death Powder (Shigeru Izumiya, 1986), Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura, 1979), Ichi The Killer (Takashi Miike, 2001), Organ (Kei Fujiwara, 1996), Id (Kei Fujiwara, 2005), Fudoh: The New Generation (Takashi Miike, 1996), Love Letter, (Shunji Iwai, 1995), Taboo (Nagisa Oshima, 1999), Angel Dust (Gakuryu Ishii, 1994), Revenge: A Visit from Fate (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997), Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999).
Bibliografi:
Ian Conrich, ”Metal-Morphosis: Post-Industrial Crisis and the Tormented Body in the Tetsuo Films.” I Japanese Horror Cinema. Edinburgh: Edingburgh University Press, 2005.
Mark Player, ”Japanese Film Production During the Punk Era: Independence, Intermediality and Mediascapes.” Ak. avh. Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading, 2021.
Miri Nakamura, “Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan.” I Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Scienece Fiction from Origins to Anime. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Orion Mavridou, ”The Monstrous Transformation of the Self: Translating Japanese Cyberpunk and the Posthuman into the Living World.” The Luminary 6 (2015).
Tom Mes, Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto. Godalming: FAB Press, 2005.
Jonatan S, Cyber Carnage Cinema: En genrestudie av den japanska cyberpunken och filmerna Death Powder, Tetsuo: The Iron Man och 964 Pinocchio. Stockholms Universitet, 2025.
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