A "metal fetishist" (Shin'ya Tsukamoto), 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 (Tomorowo Taguchi) and his girlfriend (Kei Fujiwara). 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. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles
Curator's note: Shinya Tsukamoto's timeless contribution to cyborg aesthetics. It was shot on a dime, on 16mm and blown up to 35mm, but with the kind of free spirit he learned in his earlier Super-8 filmmaking. It's undoubtedly the most influential Japanese horror film ever made.