Gemini
From acclaimed director Shinya Tsukamoto
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 83 mins
Retail Price: £19.99
Release Date: 2020
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:
Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Rampo Edogawa
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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