Takeshi Hongo è un ragazzo in gamba e con un’intelligenza sopra la media. Proprio per questo motivo attira l’attenzione di una organizzazione terroristica chiamata Shocker che lo rapisce per trasformarlo in un essere superiore, dotato di grandi poteri. In questo modo potrà aiutare la loro causa, ovvero creare un mondo abitato da superuomini. Ma questo per Takeshi avrà un prezzo molto pesante: verrà trasformato in un cyborg e gli verrà fatto il lavaggio del cervello. L’operazione fortunatamente viene interrotta e riesce a fuggire prima che la sua personalità venga cancellata. Da quel giorno dedicherà la sua vita a sconfiggere i ‘superuomini’ che la Shocker manda per eliminarlo e si porrà come obiettivo quello di debellare questa pericolosa organizzazione.
While alone in a nightclub, straight-laced Lui meets sensitive but troubled punk kid Ama. Mesmerized by his split tongue, she becomes obsessed with body modification and soon wants the same treatment. After Ama's heavily-tattooed friend Shiba pierces her tongue, Lui finds herself inexorably drawn to both men – and to her growing list of desires, she now adds a tattoo.
A young medical student struggling to pay tuition is drawn into the shady world of underground body-modification.
È estate. Due ragazzini annoiati vagabondano tra le montagne fuori dal villaggio in cerca di un posto dove giocare e si imbattono in un parco divertimenti apparentemente abbandonato. Qui incontrano uno strano individuo che convincerà loro, ed altri bambini, ad imbarcarsi in un tour dal quale pochi escono vivi.
A TV special which contained the first 23 minutes of "Shin Kamen Rider" footage and was broadcasted on MBS in order to promote the movie.
Katia, a young Polish woman adrift in London, meets Bob, an American tattoo artist. Katia is drawn to his mysterious aura and the taboo culture of body modification, but Bob has a dark, secret desire to leave his mark on the world and little does Katia know that her fascination with him will put her life in danger.
A spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.
A story about people who reinvent their ideals of perfection to incorporate a sensual attraction to surgically transformed bodies.
A collection of footage and interviews with strange people and their exploration into the unusual and extreme side of body modification.
Every evening, Brindone, a teenager, goes to bed before the end of the TV programs. Every evening, instead of going to bed discreetly, his big brother Musclor turns on the light in their shared bedroom to annoy him. Every evening the same routine. Brindone can't take it anymore.
A struggling athlete gets a one-time chance to regain his self-respect in the underground boxing scene, attempting to fight an arrogant opponent before a terrible accident changes everything.
A look into the world of body piercing and suspension and the people who do it.
Robert Mapplethorpe gets his nipple pierced while his boyfriend lends his support in person. Patti Smith lends her support via voice over as she rambles on about her childhood, her transvestite brother, her breasts and Bob Dylan?
A documentary about the practice of piercing and body modification in western cultures.
After a feverish dream, a paralysed dreamer finds themselves trapped within a purgatory of their sleep, as they begin to fuse with their bed. The purgatory begins to refract the dreamers mind, as they are confronted with multiple incarnations of themselves struggling to awake. Bed & Breakfast is inspired by the neurodivergent experience of procrastination, and inertia. Questioning the nature of memory, identity, and the fabric of reality, by plunging you into the psyche of a paralysed dreamer where reality is far repressed.
In a room there's a man with zippers all over his body, which he uses as pockets to store various surprising items. When a mouse accidentally gets "under his skin", the hunt is on!
A documentary about extreme body modification implant artist, Steve Haworth. Through painful surgery and suspension from hooks, he does more with naked skin than a mere tattoo or piercing.