Gemini (1999)
- Original title
- 双生児 -GEMINI-
- Directed by
- Shinya Tsukamoto
- Genre
- drama film, horror film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Rated
- 15+
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 91 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A wealthy doctor in the late Meiji era lives a privileged life with his wife. His long-lost identical twin brother returns to confront him with violent consequences.
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What happens
Gemini (also known as Sōseiji; 双生児, lit. "Twins") is a 1999 horror film by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is loosely based on an Edogawa Ranpo story, which pursues Tsukamoto's theme of the brutally physical and animalistic side of human beings rearing its ugly head underneath a civilized veneer, present in previous films like Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) and Tokyo Fist (1995), in what was a new territory for Tsukamoto at the time — a story set in the late Meiji era (1868–1912) with no stop-motion photography and no industrial setting. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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