*** This review may contain spoilers ***As a early Shinya Tsukamoto movie, this is amazing. The best of his films together with Tetsou and one of the best of the sub-genre Japanese Cyberpunk, Visual effects here do not lose anything to the other movies of the director.A boy who time travel to a dystopia future, where he finds and fight a bunch of vampires from the darkness, is a simple story of one man that have to save the world, the girl, and himself; (and become the Messiah?I watched him with the name (The Great Analog World) and with less than 50 minutes projection joins my list of the best films I've seen in my life.

This film is very low budget. However, Tsukamoto's creativity and imagination totally make up for it. "Denchu Kozo no Boken" is a fantastic story about time travel, vampires, and a nerdy kid with a metal pole growing out of his back. 25 years in the future, the skies become blackened and the world is terrorized by a gang of cyborg vampires..."Tetsuo" plus "Versus" meets "Back to the Future"! There is a lot of imagery in this film that is revisited in Tetsuo, as well as a really cool soundtrack.One of Japan's 1980's super 8mm gems.

Here's an early Super 8 film that Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo, Tokyo Fist), made after Phantom of Regular Size and before Tetsuo. It actually quite elaborate for something done in 8mm, in fact nearly as elaborate as Tetsuo and it's nearly as long as well, clocking in about 50 minutes. It's also done in color, like Phantom of Regular Size, is in color, so it kind of looks more like Tetsuo II than the Tetsuo. I saw the film in raw Japanese, so the plot made no sense whatsoever, but I'm pretty sure that even if I perfectly understood Japanese I wouldn't get the plot. It does has far more dialogue than Tetsuo, however, so maybe there's something I'm not getting. It involves a boy with a weird electric pole sticking out of his back. He's constantly being bulled by other kids and he only has one friend. And to make things worse, he's then whisked off to an alternate dimension world where these weird vampires rule the planet (Tommoro Taguchi and the director himself both play vampires). Then the plot gets really weird, as the kid teams up with this lady with a book on her head to fight them. Then there's lots of sick blood draining, nudity, blood curdling screams, transformations, and the kid learns to use his electric pole to light bulbs and meets another electric rod man like himself.As I said, this movie is very, very weird, but it has that wonderful independent film spirit that most of Tsukamoto's films have and it's very interesting to watch someone's early movies. A better quality, subtitled version would be nice someday and maybe I'd be able to understand this plot just a bit better.

I saw an untranslated copy of this film, so I'm certainly missing something of the story. But I really like it anyway. It seems to be about a young boy who has a lumpy metal pole that is growing out of his back. He finds some kind of apparatus that transports him to an ominous nether-world where he and a fierce woman with a book attached to her head fight some scary motorized vampire-thugs. Eventually he meets a heroic older guy who also has a pole growing out of his back--I think this guy might be sort of an idealized version of himself. Then he is transported back to his own world. This film has all the visual kicks of the first Tetsuo, but it's much more raw, and in color. It seems to have been produced on 16mm. It has a weird, fun, dorky innocence that the later Tetsuo films only vestigally had. It is very punk rock. I loved it... I wish I could see it shown on actual film, with English subtitles.