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    Unique ID Code: 0000208434
    Added by: Jitendar Canth
    Added on: 22/10/2020 14:11
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    Gemini

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    From acclaimed director Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: 15
    Running Time: 83 mins
    Retail Price: £19.99
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    Content Type: Movie

    Synopsis:
    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.

    Adapting the Edogawa Rampo short story The Twins, Shinya Tsukamoto’s (Tetsuo I & II) modernist Meiji horror represents the director’s first foray into period films and fleshes out Rampo’s original tale of savage sibling rivalry considerably.

    Marked out by its bold, hyper-realistic colour palate, exaggerated make up and costume design and an absurd taste of the carnivalesque, this chilling psychological tale should prove more than a sufficient antidote to those left jaded by the restrained, by-numbers approach adopted by the majority of late 1990s horrors that appeared in the wake of Ring.

    Special Features:
    Audio commentary by Tom Mes, author of Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto
    Making of Gemini” featurette directed by Takashi Miike (15 minutes)
    Venice Film Festival featurette (17 minutes)
    Make-up demonstration featurette (6 minutes)
    Behind the Scenes (20 minutes)
    Original Trailer
    First 1000 units come with slipcase featuring new artwork illustrated by Ian MacEwan

    Video Tracks:
    1.85:1 widescreen 1080p

    Audio Tracks:
    DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo Japanese

    Subtitle Tracks:
    English

    Directed By:
    Shin'ya Tsukamoto

    Written By:


    Starring:
    Masahiro Motoki
    Ryô
    Yasutaka Tsutsui
    Masako Motai
    Renji Ishibashi
    Akaji Maro

    Music From:
    Chu Ishikawa

    Director of Photography:
    Shin'ya Tsukamoto

    Editor:
    Shin'ya Tsukamoto

    Production Designer:
    Takashi Sasaki

    Producer:
    Yasuhiko Furusato
    Toshiaki Nakazawa
    Futoshi Nishimura
    Taishi Nishimura

    Distributor:
    Third Window Films

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