Tokyo Fist

Tokyo Fist (1995) is a brutal Japanese action drama by Shinya Tsukamoto you can watch online on iFILM. Tsuda, a mild insurance salesman who lives by the clock, runs into an old schoolmate — now a semi-pro boxer with a wrecked face and a calm, low-burning rage.

That meeting sets off a chain reaction. Tsuda suspects the boxer of an affair with his fiancée Hizuru; she throws herself into a world of blood and pain of her own; and he signs up at the gym to forge his own body into a weapon. Tsukamoto directs and takes a lead role himself, with his brother Kôji Tsukamoto opposite him and Kahori Fujii as Hizuru.

Made right after the cult hit Tetsuo, it carries the same signature — jagged cuts, the metallic drone of the city, flesh treated as a battlefield. It's short, barely over an hour, and it never lets up. Not for the squeamish, but if hard Japanese cinema about the body and obsession is your thing, don't skip it. Stream Tokyo Fist (1995) online on iFILM.