Doppelganger

Doppelganger

2003 · 107 min · JA · 6.9 (35 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

Hayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well and he is stressed out and on the verge of being fired from the research division of his company. His doppelgänger appears to help him out of the rut he has created for himself.

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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
inventorsplit personalitydoppelgänger
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