After years of covering the human body in scrap metal (in the Tetsuo films), bruises, wounds and scars (in Tokyo Fist and Bullet Ballet) and dirt (in Gemini), Shinya Tsukamoto was finally comfortable enough to expose it in all its naked glory in A Snake of June. Asuka Kurosawa's liberation from emotional and physical repression while masturbating in the pouring rain took Tsukamoto on a new course. But with the skin as a seemingly obvious endpoint, it was a course that begged the question "Where to next?". More