NISF X LUMI: Tetsuo: The Iron Man

BBFC RatingNISF X LUMI: Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Showing: 18 February 2026

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Wed 18 Feb 2026

Certificate18
Year1989
GenreHorror, Sci-Fi
Director(s)Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Writer(s)Shin'ya Tsukamoto
LanguageJapanese
CountryJapan
Running Time1HR 7MINS
Extra InfoEnglish Subtitles
Season LUMI Presents, NI Science Festival

An out-of-this-world nightmare birthed from metal and flesh, Shin'ya Tsukamoto's cult horror classic frenetically rejects the drudgery of so-called normal life.

A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal, and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fueled transformation.

Screening as part of NI Science Festival. Established in 2014, NI Science Festival has grown to become the largest celebration of its kind on the island of Ireland and in its relatively short lifespan became one of the leading Science Festivals in the whole of Europe.

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