When it was announced that Arrow Video was going to be
releasing a box set of auteur director Shinya Tsukamoto films, it was
incredibly hard to get the staff here at Blood Brothers to focus. Oddly enough,
I was perhaps the one that was the least versed in the director and I was still
ecstatic to leap into this set, titled Solid Metal Nightmares: The Films of
Shinya Tsukamoto. The most daunting thing about the set was not burning our
way through the ten films included with it, but trying to convey our thoughts
on the immensity of this set. Thus, to cover all ten films and go over the
actual release itself, we decided to divvy up the films. Ten films, three
writers, one insane director. So, please, accept our apologies for the size of
this article, but it was inevitable. This is a massive set to cover and we
wanted to at least attempt to do it justice. Each film will feature its rating
at the end of its section and then the box set rating will be at the very end.