Doppelganger (2003)
Doppelganger / Dopperugengâ (2003)
DVDRip | Lang: Japanese | Subs (idx/sub): English, Chinese | AVI | 640 x 352 | XviD @ 779 Kbps | mp3 @ 130 Kbps | 01:46:36 | 713 Mb
Genre: Thriller | 2 wins | Japan
DVDRip | Lang: Japanese | Subs (idx/sub): English, Chinese | AVI | 640 x 352 | XviD @ 779 Kbps | mp3 @ 130 Kbps | 01:46:36 | 713 Mb
Genre: Thriller | 2 wins | Japan
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, this Japanese psycho-thriller follows Michio Hayasaki (Koji Yakusho), a scientist employed by Medical Cytech, a mysterious research conglomerate. Obsessed with his latest project, a "human body chair" complete with sensory-activated artificial limbs, Michio is in a typically aggravated state when he comes across what he thinks is his doppelganger in a local restaurant. This doppelganger sighting, an exact double of someone that is reportedly seen before their imminent death, is quite unnerving to the young scientist. Before long, however, it becomes an annoyance more than a grim reaper, as the doppelganger version of Michio tries to take over his career and later goes on a murderous rampage.
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Wimpy, weary, stressed-out workaholic research scientist Michio Hayasaki (superbly played by Koji Yakusho) ain't having a good time of it: he's totally fried and exhausted by his job because he can't make that necessary breakthrough to perfect a spiffy new automated wheelchair he's designing for some big company. Worse yet, if Michio doesn't produce some solid results pronto his overbearing greedy jerk of a boss is going to cut his funds. Things get even more complicated when Michio's exact double suddenly materializes in the flesh. Whereas Michio is seriously meek, responsible and unassertive, his doppelganger is pure bad news: brash, crude, aggressive and blithely irresponsible, a toxic product of Michio's repressed id who cheerfully proceeds to further mess up Michio's already wildly unstable life.
Director/co-screenwriter Kiyoshi Kurosawa offers up a deliciously clever and incisive seriocomic thriller which works beautifully as a marvelously off-beat and original meditation on the duality of human nature, keenly exploring how all of us have both positive and negative traits existent in our personalities which we must come to terms with or otherwise denial can (and, most frightfully, inevitably will) get the best of us. The film starts out on a deceptively dark and disturbing note, eventually giving way to a more playful and farcical sensibility that's always entertaining and often wickedly funny. Better yet, Michio's journey of self-discovery ultimately proves to be quite helpful and uplifting, concluding things with a very touching and heartening finale that's a joy to behold. Koji Yashuko delivers an outstanding performance in a most difficult and demanding role, endowing Michio with a certain hangdog appeal and even investing his ne'er-do-well double with an irresistibly rascally charm. The supporting cast likewise makes the grade, while the state-of-the-art digital effects which allow Michio and his double to interact on screen together are both splendid and seamless. A fiendishly sharp and smart delight that's well worth checking out.User Review on imdb.com
Doppelganger (2003)
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