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Virtually absent from theater screens since the 1990s, this underground classic from Japan is filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto’s unhinged hot take on humankind’s ongoing battle with technology — literally, as a man mutates into a walking, clanking man-machine that terrorizes himself and everyone around him. Warping elements of early Cronenberg, Lynch and Raimi into a deliriously-paced cyberpunk cocktail, TETSUO is a body horror manifesto that’s fueled by techno-erotic adrenaline and wrought iron perversion. Unmissable. (Note courtesy of AGFA.) DIR/SCR/PROD Shinya Tsukamoto. Japan, 1989, b&w, 67 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. NOT RATED