Spring 2011 East Asian Film Series (Presented by the East Asian Studies Center and the IU Cinema)

TITLE: Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2009)
DATE: Saturday, April 23
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
LOCATION: IU Cinema

Calm office worker Anthony, son of an American father and a Japanese mother, lives in Tokyo with his wife Yuriko and their little son Tom. Since Anthony’s mother died of cancer, his scientist father has been overly fearful for their health and rigidly subjects Anthony and Tom to monthly physicals. Walking home one day, Tom is killed in a hit and run before Anthony’s eyes. Losing their boy pushes Yuriko over the edge and triggers violent emotions in Anthony, whose body begins to transform. Little by little, his cells turn into iron. When the driver who killed Tom reappears and Anthony learns the truth about his father’s past experiments on human guinea pigs and about his mother’s death, Anthony mutates into a mass of metal—a human weapon fueled by an uncontrollable rage.

In English, 79 minutes.  This film contains graphic images and adult subject matter. It is not suited for children.

Admission will be free, but tickets will be required. Tickets may be obtained through the IU Auditorium box office, Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. or in the IU Cinema lobby 30 minutes prior to the screening.  If all tickets have been issued for a free event, the IU Cinema will recognize a wait-list line to seat additional patrons, if seats become available.

For further information, contact the East Asian Studies Center at 855-3765 or at easc@indiana.edu.

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