It's been 20 years since the birth of Tetsuo. In my previous two Tetsuo films, I tried to portray the unstable state of the people living in today's urban city. The idea of the human body turning metallic is a very simple but ironical metaphor. In Tetsuo the Bullet Man my third Tetsuo film, the progatonist's body starts to turn metallic as well, but this time he turns into a deadly weapon, and fights against the fear of killing people against his own will. In that context, war is another important subject for me this time. I take pride in bringing out the tradition of the Tetsuo franchise as well as a new perspective to this film, in the simplest and steeliest way.

Story:
Anthony is an ordinary American businessman living in Tokyo, without knowing his happy life with wife Yuriko and 3 year old son Tom would end suddenly. One day, out of the blue, Tom gets killed by a mystery man. Why did my son have to die that way? Despair turns him to start searching for the reason. What he finds out is a fact that Ride (Anthony's father), used to work for the US military forces as an anatomist and was involved in a secret experiment. He gradually begins to find out the truth hidden deep in his family's past, and his own body.

Anthony has been disciplined by Ride not to get caught by his own anger, but when he loses himself in his wrath against his fathers words for the very first time, his body starts to eject steam oil, and his muscles turn into deadly metallic weapons...What is the purpose of the man who killed Tom? What is the secret of Anthony's body? And what is the Tetsuo Project that the US military forces were working on in the post-war Japan?

When all the mysteries converge, something massive is about to explode and swallow the city of Tokyo. What will melt Anthony's steely heart---love, or hate?

Aaron Soto caught the complete Tetsuo The Bullet Man panel at the San Diego Comic Con and has loaded it up below the break. The footage shown at the panel should follow shortly.