Denchû kozô no bôken

A boy with an electric rod growing out of his back is taken into the future to battle vampires that plan to block out the sun. I see this as a preview to future Tsukamoto works with many of the styles, visuals and techniques that are used here are used in later works. The use of metal and it mixed with various forms of flesh was familiar as well as the stop motion movements of the chase scenes. The comedy was nice and got a good few chuckles out of me. Obviously it being his early work and being low budget its special effects were vastly limited and poor in execution. Even still the low quality of the effects had a certain identity that really made it pop. The camera work was as bad but didn't have that personal style. If you liked House (1977) and Tsukamoto's works then you'd enjoy this, if you're not a fan of absurd or cartoony story lines then I would skip.