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unusual facts about Tetsuo: The Bullet Man


Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

The closing credits of the film feature an original track by industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails entitled Theme for Tetsuo: The Bullet Man.


Furimukeba Ai

Kyoko finds Tetsuo at the top of the hill overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge where they first met.

Hibiya Incendiary Incident

Shumpei Okamoto: The Emperor and the Crowd: the Historical Significance of the Hibiya Riot; In: Tetsuo Najita, J. Victor Koschmann (Hrsg.): Conflict in Modern Japanese History: The Neglected Tradition (engl.), Princeton University Press, 1982, ISBN 0-691-10137-X

Kei Fujiwara

Her first role was in the American film, The Neptune Factor, but she is perhaps best known for starring in the Japanese cult film, Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Miho Iwata

In 2006 she was invited to perform in Tetsuo Furudate's DADAyama project to Berlin as part of Deutschlandradio's celebration of ninety years of Dada, which was broadcast over EBU radio.

Miyoko Kudō

Her older sister Akiko was the wife of Chiharu Igaya and her younger brother Tetsuo Ikeda is president of Baseball Magazine.

Tetsuo Ochikubo

Tetsuo Ochikubo (1923–1975), also known as Bob Ochikubo, was a Japanese-American painter and printmaker who was born in Waipahu, Hawaii, Honolulu county, Hawaii.

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D. C.), and the Honolulu Museum of Art are among the public collections holding works by Tetsuo Ochikubo.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

The film opens with a man (called only "the man", or the "Metal Fetishist"), cutting open a massive gash in his leg and then shoving a large threaded steel rod into the wound.


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