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Gemini (also known as Sôseiji) is a 1999 horror film by Shinya Tsukamoto, loosely based on a...

Gemini (also known as Sôseiji) is a 1999 horror film by Shinya Tsukamoto, loosely based on a Edogawa Ranpo story, pursues his theme of the brutally physical and animalistic side of human beings rearing its ugly head underneath a civilized veneer, present in previous films like Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) and Tokyo Fist (1995), in what is a new territory for Tsukamoto—a story set in the late Meiji era (1868-1912) with no stop-motion photography and no industrial setting. Tokyo. 1910. Dr. Daitokuji Yukio (Masahiro Motoki), a former military doctor who has taken over a successful practice from his father and treats plague victims, is living a charmed life: he is a respected young doctor with a successful practice and Rin (Ryo), a beautiful wife. His only problem is that she suffers from amnesia, and her past is unknown. However, things begin to fall apart. Both his parents dying suddenly, killed by a mysterious stranger who looks just like him. His relationship with his wife worsens after he chose to cure the mayor instead of destitute denizens of nearby ghettos. While isolated from his relatives, he one day faces the mysterious stranger who turns out to be his long-lost rejected