director shinya tsukamoto of tetsuo fame return with something very different than his hyperkinetic cyborg technophilia mindtrip represent an almost sober costume drama cum doppelganger thriller . this man have versatility and i must say . now the story be decent and though not as great a it could have be . a strange occurrence and the feeling of an alien presence start plague a successful doctor life and he suddenly get trap at the bottom of a well while a mysterious person who look just like him take over his life and include his house and his wife . through dialog and flashbacks we learn that the mystery man be his long lose brother and abandon by his family because of a snake shaped deformity on his leg . after he get separate with his wife rin and he search for her to find that rin have marry the successful doctor twin . want revenge for his rejection from society and plus to get back at and back together with his old wife and the stranger decide to taunt his doctor brother by force him into the most abject of condition . it not particularly effective for horror or thriller approach and but it be a good movie in the way the one actor play the double role and the color and movement tsukamoto capture . apparently he hire actor from a certain local theatre to play the role and and the approach they have to their character be certainly very physical represent the doppelganger and rin snake around each other while make love and the way he cartwheel around to scare the brother mother and the level of distortion each character put on their face in order to project their emotion . add an extremely acute focus on costuming and you get something almost out of noh theatre represent demonic expressiveness and bright colorful motif and pace and structure movement . polarisdib .