Death Powder

Death Powder
DVD cover
Directed byShigeru Izumiya
Written byShigeru Izumiya
Produced byShigeru Izumiya
Starring
  • Shigeru Izumiya
  • Rikako Murakami
  • Takichi Inukai
CinematographyKazuo Komizu
Music byShigeru Izumiya
Production
companies
  • Media Mix Japan
  • Essen Communications
Release date
  • 21 June 1986 (1986-06-21) (Japan)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Death Powder (Japanese: デスパウダー, Hepburn: Desu Paudā) is a 1986 low-budget Japanese science fiction/horror film with body horror elements, written and directed by poet/folk singer Shigeru Izumiya.

The experimental film is credited as being the first core of the Japanese cyberpunk subgenre that emerged during the 1980s, predating both Katsuhiro Otomo's anime film adaptation of Akira and Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Izumiya also stars in his own film, as one of the three scientists who have stolen a cybernetic android and taken it to an abandoned warehouse.