Corporeal monstrosities and teratological grimaces: Monstrous spaces in twenty-first-century sci-fi...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This article examines three Japanese science-fiction movies that present dis-organ-ized bodies as ontological disintegrations of the ‘sublime’, namely, Dopperungengâ (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2003), Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu (Yoshihiro Nishimura, 2008), and Kataude mashin gâru (Noboru Iguchi, 2008). My article argues that these films approach the amalgamation of organic bodies and mechanical artefacts as an anti-sublime mitigation of the physicality of the body that puts demand on the audience to empathize with the abject emotion of the incommensurable.</jats:p>