I recently picked up a hilarious and technically fascinating film from Japan on videocassette that I had never heard of before, made around 1992. Filmed in black and white, it uses stop-motion animation and elaborate make up and costume effects to tell the story of a man who basically turns into a heap of junkyard rubble. I'm curious if anyone else has heard of this film and knows anything about the filmmaker -- has he/she done anything else? Considering the recent discussions of "NBK" and "Pulp Fiction", I found "Iron Man" interesting in that it combines some very violent, bloody sequences with sex, forming an interesting commentary on how pop media have combined the two. The story-telling style is quite similar to that of "NBK" as well. Randy A. Riddle [log in to unmask]