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.
Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Gemini (a.k.a. Soseiji) has that strange presence to it that he's so good at expressing in his films. It's sinister, genre-bending and at first you really don't know what to believe about what's going on. It could all be just a figure of your mind, or something much worse. Tsukamoto captures all these questions and presents them in an astonishing way, with great cinematography and screenplay.
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