Tetsuo II: Body Hammer /

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer is a 1992 Japanese science fiction/horror film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is a bigger-budget reworking of the same director's 1989 movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man, utilizing similar themes and ideas to the earlier film (a Japanese salaryman, played by cult actor Tomorowo Taguchi, finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.) It was not as well received as its predecessor but it did win the Critic's Award at the 3rd Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1992. A third Tetsuo movie, entitled Tetsuo: The Bullet Man, was released in May 2010. The film opens with a scene of a man being shot by Yatsu - known in the first part as "The Metal Fetishist" and also known as "The Guy" in this movie - who kills his victim by a gunshot fired from his hand that he holds like a gun (index finger and thumb extended). While in the city and discussing his past with his wife, remembering that he does not have any memories before his adoption when he was eight years old, a man named Taniguchi Tomoo narrowly escapes death after two cyborg skinheads try to kidnap his son, Minori. During the