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

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)

Trailer

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