The film begging showcasing the destruction of human bodies via a fiery explosion as a humanoid rises from the sewage. This shows a new life has been created in the form of an android showcasing the industrialisation of japan and the fear of a cyberpunk future, as shown by electric waves flying across japan. A woman on the run then then gets chased down by a gang but it turns out they know her as her and the guy get sent on a job to kick a person out of there house for another person. The film then showcases this person who is hiding an android woman in his basement as he destroys the place in a scene like Frankenstein, as the man and woman in the film are erectly like, low budget blade runners killing aneroids. This showcases the fear of technological dominance in Japanese society and this merging of man and machine could create a new organism. This fear of an industrialised japan in shown though the film highlighting the fears of a cyberpunk world in Japanese society. An android in being created a new lifeform like Frankenstein which relates to the themes of cyberpunk, as the monster attacks a coop who gets beaten up and chocks on deadly fumes. The girl then tries to shoot him but misses as the guy stabs him and cuts off his hand.
A new lifeform is then created in the form of an android as electricity discharges from it. This showcases the fear of a newly emerging technical dominant japan which is what the android symbolizes. The girl and the guy are touched by the cyborg as the guy dies from taken to much death powder, a cyberpunk drug. The girl then breaks free and fights the guy by gauging one of his eyes out as the though the death powder the guy comes back as a zombie. The film also showcases the body horror elements of cyberpunk as the guy starts to melt and die from the powder showcasing the themes of drug addiction in the film. The main guy then fades into a static TV as images play in reverse which showcases the fears of a technologically dominant japan, he then sees a woman who exits as a system on TV which showcases the fears of a technologically domain Japan. The film showcases the woman’s backstory about being the first android in an 80s music video style showcasing japans technological future and its fear particularly in the realm of commercialisation. The guy then leaves the cyborg woman in the other man’s care, the as the central them as to whether this cyborg woman could be human is up to him. To make this happen they must show the android love and create good memories, as she has a four-year life span and then when she dies her body will become powder that can change life into other things. She experiences hundreds of years in the span of four years and experiences love as shown by kissing in the backdrop and real life and the computer world become intertwined. Her memories are then dissolved as the brother of the main guy sees his memories and pops back into reality.
It turns out that the main guy owns money and is part of a gang as he was beaten when he was an artist. He and the cyborg woman share the same path as he was tough love by the hacker woman, and they are cyborgs, and they are going to die soon as they have a four-year life span like blade runner. They then try and use the main villain’s brother as blackmail for them to come, the powder is like a drug that brings incredible effects and gives the essence of life and people war over it. People including the main guy’s brother seek revenge on the people that make the powder, as a fight then incuses between the guy and the girl as they storm the villains place and get revenge on killing their brother. The main guy the punches the villain in the head to death and burns him, the cyborg girl, and the guy then merge showcasing the technological take over of Japan and the fears in Japanese society. This fear of Japanese society is shown is the body horror imagery of decapitated body parts as more information on the cyborg woman is shown as the flashbacks on her life are shown. The lab then explodes as the film shows the phone call of the brother explains that he is creating the powder to get out of dept. The android guy then wakes up and remodels himself showing that in a way he is still human as the sectors of life and the guy’s life are in the same body but different. Though the advances in technology the film shows that aneroids are becoming more human than human, as the woman comes in to kill them as her and the other bounty hunters want the powder, so they work together.
They all then burst their way into the lab and are killed by a body horror mass, as it shows a new cyberpunk organism that dissolves them like the blob, as a new life form is created from their emergence. This new entity contains all their lives as it flashes back with voice over of the characters to showcase humanity’s inevitable assimilation of man and machine as traditional humanity is leading to inevitable annihilation.
Death Powder is a film about Japanese fears in a technologically advanced society and the annihilation of man and the hands of the machine is inevitable.