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Tetsuwan Atom debuts in Japan (1963). Released under the title Astroboy in the United States, this revolutionary TV series launched the subgenre known as anime.

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Eraserhead opens (1977). Director David Lynch's dark, dreamlike horror movie—an artsy black-and-white feature about a misfit with strange hair, his spastic wife, and their monstrous offspring. Though the movie baffles a lot of critics, it goes on to become a cult classic and establishes Lynch (who goes on to helm Dune, Blue Velvet, and Lost Highway, among others) as a modern master of the avant-garde.

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Shinya Tsukamoto is born (1960). Shinya Tsukamoto has directed such influential Japanese genre films as Testuo, aka The Ironman (1988), The Adventure of Denchu Kozo (1987), and Hiruko the Goblin (1990). He was born in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.

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SCIFIpedia Timeline for January 1