Doppelgänger

Doppelgänger

2003 · 107 min · JA · 6.9 (52 votes)
Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa · Starring Koji Yakusho, Hiromi Nagasaku, Yusuke Santamaria, Masahiro Toda, Hitomi Sato, Akira Emoto

“What if your worst nightmare… turned out to be you?”

ComedyScience FictionThriller

Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer on the verge of a breakthrough in medical technology is confronted by his own.

VIBE

This film feels like a fever dream where existential dread meets quirky invention. It's a disorienting, yet strangely funny, exploration of self and the anxieties of creation. The tone is unsettlingly playful.

unsettlingquirkyanxioussurrealsteadysci-fi comedyexistentialquirky thrilleridentitydualityambitionanxiety
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