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Yukio is living a charmed life: he is a respected young doctor with a successful practice and a beautiful wife. His only problem is that his wife is suffering from amnesia, and her past is unknown. Things begin to fall apart, however, when both his parents die suddenly, killed by a mysterious stranger with Yukio's face. Only when Yukio confronts this stranger will the mystery of his identity, and his wife's past, be revealed.
Adapting the Edogawa Rampo short story The Twins, Shinya Tsukamoto's (Tetsuo I & II) modernist Meiji horror represents the director's first foray into period films and fleshes out Rampo's original tale of savage sibling rivalry considerably.
Marked out by its bold, hyper-realistic colour palate, exaggerated make up and costume design and an absurd taste of the carnivalesque, this chilling psychological tale should prove more than a sufficient antidote to those left jaded by the restrained, by-numbers approach adopted by the majority of late 1990s horrors that appeared in the wake of Ring.
Special Features
- New HD transfer / Audio commentary by Tom Mes, author of Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto
- Making of Gemini" featurette directed by Takashi Miike (15 minutes)
- Venice Film Festival featurette (17 minutes)
- Make-up demonstration featurette (6 minutes)
- Behind the Scenes (20 minutes)
- Original Trailer
- Third Window
- 84 mins approx
- Shinya Tsukamoto
- 15
- Masahiro Motoki
- Ryo
- Tadan
English
- 1999
- Japanese
- 1
- B
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Arrow Films
Yukio is living a charmed life: he is a respected young doctor with a successful practice and a beautiful wife. His only problem is that his wife is suffering from amnesia, and her past is unknown. Things begin to fall apart, however, when both his parents die suddenly, killed by a mysterious stranger with Yukio's face. Only when Yukio confronts this stranger will the mystery of his identity, and his wife's past, be revealed.
Adapting the Edogawa Rampo short story The Twins, Shinya Tsukamoto's (Tetsuo I & II) modernist Meiji horror represents the director's first foray into period films and fleshes out Rampo's original tale of savage sibling rivalry considerably.
Marked out by its bold, hyper-realistic colour palate, exaggerated make up and costume design and an absurd taste of the carnivalesque, this chilling psychological tale should prove more than a sufficient antidote to those left jaded by the restrained, by-numbers approach adopted by the majority of late 1990s horrors that appeared in the wake of Ring.
Special Features
- New HD transfer / Audio commentary by Tom Mes, author of Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto
- Making of Gemini" featurette directed by Takashi Miike (15 minutes)
- Venice Film Festival featurette (17 minutes)
- Make-up demonstration featurette (6 minutes)
- Behind the Scenes (20 minutes)
- Original Trailer
- Third Window
- 84 mins approx
- Shinya Tsukamoto
- 15
- Masahiro Motoki
- Ryo
- Tadan
English
- 1999
- Japanese
- 1
- B
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Enjoyable Horror
In the end this movie wasn't completely my cup of tea. There were some cool ideas and it definitely inspired me with its style and how it chose to tell the story. Glad this has a good release. I probably wont revisit it too much but if you're a horror head it's definitely worth checking out.
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