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.
Acting
Yakusho playing two men who hate each other; pure unhinged cinema
Direction
Kurosawa turns a conference room into existential hell
Writing
Third act twist that reframes the entire film's morality
Director
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kurosawa originally conceived this as pure horror; the comedy emerged from Yakusho's performance and the absurdity of Japanese corporate culture in the early 2000s bubble burst.
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