Shin'ya Tsukamoto

Films like Tetsuo, the Ironman (1989), continued with Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) and Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009), have made it to the top as cyberpunk classics for their electrifying visual exploration of the man-machine duality from a radically subjective point of view, thanks to the very personal creative universe of their director, Shinya Tsukamoto. Born January 1st, 1960 in Tokyo, Tsukamoto usually performs diverse functions in his films —actor, director of photography, editing, production design…—, something that has to do with his early love of cinema: when he was just 14, his parents gave him a Super 8 camera. “I didn’t have any equipment or anything like that. It was just me. So when I became a professional filmmaker, I was already used to working like that”, he said.

Sitges Film Festival