Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

Name: Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
Duration: 1 h 23 min

1hr 23m

3.5/5 (4.9K)

1hr 23m
3.5/5 (4.9K)

When metal-worshipping fanatics abduct his son, a father unleashes his dormant destructive power, as his naked rage transforms the once-feeble flesh into a… More Details »

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Director:

Shin'ya Tsukamoto

Producer:

Hiromi Aihara, Fumio Kurokawa, Fuminori Shishido

Runtime:

1hr 23m

Synopsis

When metal-worshipping fanatics abduct his son, a father unleashes his dormant destructive power, as his naked rage transforms the once-feeble flesh into a grisly symbiosis of metal and tissue. Who dares to defy the ultimate body-hammer?

Cast

Tomorô Taguchi
Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Nobu Kanaoka
Sujin Kim
Hideaki Tezuka
Tomoo Asada
Iwata
Keinosuke Tomioka
Torauemon Utazawa
Min Tanaka

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RATINGS 90 FANS

3.5

Jul 18, 2018

Beautifully grotesque insanity with a fleshed out narrative being the only thing that holds it back from its predecessor. That’s not necessarily a bad thing though... I don't think I could ever not like a homoerotic cyber insanity jam called BODY HAMMER, especially with…

392 Likes

Ian West

Jan 21, 2015

More of a companion piece that a proper sequel, though it does have a guys arm turning into a gun and blowing up his child and getting so mad about it that he turns into a tank.

341 Likes

COBRARocky

Aug 27, 2026

"Daddy had a Dream" You could argue it's more or less the first one, but with more money maybe/probably or then again just think of it as the Evil Dead 2 of the series which is pretty handy as they both have the No. 2 at the end (bows head in shame!) "Rust and…

166 Likes

VIVE_le_FILTH
Sep 20, 2016

The commentary on the absorption of the facets of human life into an industrial existence which technological influence deprives humanity from a personal identity is now transformed into a more action-oriented, darkly colored allegory of how our past determines our will to…

151 Likes

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

Oct 12, 2026

"Rust and die!" It has some interesting aspects, but it's far from the first Tetsuo. You can tell editors definitely had a good time editing this, and that some freak designed that body hammer. Everything having a blue hue and cyberpunk look makes for an…

91 Likes

Caroline

Jan 22, 2023

Tsukamoto has an extreme talent for being incomprehensible and yet the story and ideas are still transmitted to the viewer somehow. You're left feeling baffled/accosted/visually overwhelmed but the synapsis connects anyway. At the end of a sequence that I've been assaulted…

124 Likes

Scumbalina
Jul 29, 2019

Tsukamoto's follow-up to his own j-cyber manifesto isn't so much a sequel as a remix, enlarging the beats of maxed-out technology fetishism and pre-apocalyptic tension but pretty much abandoning the original narrative thread. The salaryman of the first film is again the…

107 Likes

WraithApe

Jul 20, 2018

Revenge at the speed of light. Replacing the B&W of the original with deep blues and searing oranges lends new visual possibilities to Tsukamoto's already unhinged style- the final 20 minutes are a scorcher for the history books. Unfortunately, the middle drags a bit, but…

91 Likes

Evan “Raymond Gun-Virus” Pincus

Jan 29, 2015

film reaching as far into the disaster zone as possible, where everyone gets hurt. nobody is left unscathed, no more heroes (s/o to suda), a deliberate tone of madness streaked across celluloid in frantic, manic strokes. tsukamoto plays frames for laughs right before…

82 Likes

Dave