In Kiyoshi Kurosawa's genre-blending blast of crime and science-fiction, having a double means never having to say you’re sorry.
Unable to finish his novel, Takashi Nagai cracks under pressure and develops a duplicate soul. The double moves into the Nishimori apartment that Takashi shares with his sister, Yuka (Hiromi Nagasaku), and shames him by writing feverishly; finally, the real Takashi commits suicide. Meanwhile, scientist Michio Hayasaki (Koji Yukusho) learns that his corporate sponsor may pull the plug on his "Artificial Human Body Chair," a brain-stimulating device he can't quite perfect. Like Nagai, Hayasaki begins seeing double. His twin, howeve...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
107 mins