Gemini

Yukio Daitokuji is an acclaimed doctor, living with his parents and a young wife in a good Tokyo district at the turn of the twentieth century. The only flaw to this untroubled life is that Yukio’s wife suffers from amnesia and that he cannot get rid of the persistent feeling that the family is being watched. One day his parents are brutally murdered. The murderer is Yukio’s mysterious twin who holds him prisoner and assumes Yukio‘s life. The struggle with the phantom may begin. Shinya Tsukamoto, a renowned director of Japanese horror, opens his film as a costume drama but what follows is a horror, bizarre and full of blood.

Shinya Tsukamoto was born in Tokyo in 1960. He began to experiment with 8mm camera at the age of fourteen. In 1989 he directed a full-length film Tetsuo – Iron Man which ultimately became a breakout hit and Tsukamoto gained the reputation of an influential yet perverse director and actor. In his films Tsukamoto explores the possibilities of human body confronted with modern technologies, sexuality, instincts, fears and social conventions.