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Michio, a developer of medical instruments, feels pressed by his employer to come up with a successful design at short notice. In danger of burning out, he encounters an exact double who takes over Michio’s career and uses violence to achieve his goals.

A decidedly playful master of many genres, Kiyoshi Kurosawa collaborated again with the great actor Kôji Yakusho (Cure) in a lightly comic version of a very scary idea: one day, a man sees his exact double. Existentially terrifying, perhaps, but also… potentially advantageous? A darkly sly gem.