ZOMG!!! Director Shinya Tsukamoto, you are GREAT!!!

Director Shinya Tsukamoto announced that he’s made an English-language sequel to the Japanese cult series Tetsuo, coming out in 2010, called Tetsuo: The Bullet Man!

I remember watching the first two and cracking up in laughter; then having nightmares later that night. There really aren’t any other films like Tetsuo.

Hailed as one of the greatest Japanese cyberpunk movies of all time, Tetsuo: The Iron Manis about a salaryman hit by a car who gradually starts turning into a car himself. Finally his body becomes a mass of steel and wires, and his penis a giant drill – which he promptly uses on his girlfriend. Impressionistic and dark, the movie at times looks like an industrial music video. All the effects are stop-motion animation and prosthetics, with manage to capture the gooey, rusting look of a man halfway between office worker and deadly machine.

The new movie comes over a decade after the sequel. Tsukamoto said through an interpreter that he made it with US-based Ace Productions. It’s about an American named Antony working in Tokyo, married to a Japanese woman. He makes the agonizing transformation into Tetsuo when their son Tom is killed by the same evil driver who creates the Tetsuos in previous films.

Tsukamoto hopes that Tetsuo: The Bullet Man will be a good way for newbies to the series to get into it. He said that if you watch Bulletman it makes a perfect entre to the two previous Japanese films. He says he chose to film his first English film in Tokyo because that city is “a true cybercity – the most cyberpunk city in the world.”

The movie will be completed in September, when it will hit the festival circuit. And the director says he hopes to open it worldwide in 2010. [via io9]

Man this is gonna be one disturbingly kooky film!