BULLET-MAN

Cacophony shill for the latest in Shinya Tsukamoto's machine-man series, Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. As with previous sequel Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, this new release is more a reshuffling of ideas that narrative continuation. Half-delivering on a series of promises made in the 1990s, director Tsukamoto hasn't shifted the action to the United States, but he does appear to have assembled an English language cast to flail about in Japan's concrete capital. Hopefully the culture clash is handled with a little more grace than Takashi Shimizu's dreary Ju-on retreads.

Tetsuo Tetsuo Tetsuo

New flesh fans rejoice! Screen Daily carried a story yesterday about the imminent release of a third Tetsuo film. Although not completed in time for this year's Canne Film Festival, director Shinya Tsukamoto is still journeying to the French resort to shop around for distribution deals. Show reel! For the uninitiated: 1989's Tetsuo: The Iron Man featured a salary man's metal fetish infection, and his subsequent transformation into a junk-pile march messiah. Tetsuo II: Body Hammer transposed a nominal action thriller narrative onto proceedings, a meek father finds he can metamorph into a walking weapon when his child is kidnapped by skin-head ability shades. Cataclysm ensues. Fingers crossed for a speedy international rights pick-up on Part III! Get Tarantino and the Weinsteins on the case.

Tetsuo by Moebius

Jean Giraud's take on telekinetic wunderkind Tetsuo, from Katsuhiro Otomo's manga masterpiece Akira. Otomo is pretty unabashed in recognising Moebius' influence on his own clean-line exhaust vision. Imagine that, your hero doodling your very own mind figure creation.