Almost one year to the date since it premiered In Competition at the Venice Film Festival, Tetsuo III: The Bullet Man has found a home with the IFC folks. Packaged along with the second installment, the deal appears to be a great buy for the new genre division simply called IFC Midnight. Shinya Tsukamoto’s began the series in 1989 with the Tetsuo II: The Body Hammer following in 1992. The Venice version of part III was re-cut and was recently showcased at Tribeca in it’s new shell.
The Bullet Man is about an American named Antony is living and working in Tokyo and married to a Japanese woman. When their son is killed by the same driver who creates the Tetsuos in previous films, he makes the transformation into Tetsuo – a “human weapon”.