# Doppelganger (2003)

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**Original title**: *ドッペルゲンガー*
**Runtime**: 107 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Science Fiction, Thriller
**Directed by**: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
**Written by**: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Ken Furusawa
**Starring**: Koji Yakusho, Hiromi Nagasaku, Yusuke Santamaria, Masahiro Toda, Hitomi Sato, Akira Emoto

> *What if your worst nightmare… turned out to be you?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Tokyo laboratory. Late nights. Hum of the equipment.
A driven engineer closes in on a medical breakthrough, but a colleague's story haunts him: a man driven to suicide by his own double. Soon, face to face, he meets his own.
Kurosawa's wry genre-blend offers unsettling laughs.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, cerebral, paranoid, slow-burn

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