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Bilocation
Movie

Bilocation

2013 • Unknown

Woke Score
1.6
out of 10

Plot

Shinobu Takamura is an aspiring painter. One day, she is accused of using counterfeit money. Shinobu is confused by the allegation, because she never did such a thing and was at home when the crime occurred. Police Officer Kanou then appears and takes her to a place. When they get there, a group of people are already gathered. All of the people there are concerned over a doppelganger like existence that looks just like them and acts like them. They call that existence "bilocation".

Overall Series Review

Bilocation is a 2013 Japanese supernatural thriller that centers on the psychological horror of a doppelgänger phenomenon. The plot follows aspiring painter Shinobu Takamura, who discovers she has a 'bilocation' that commits crimes and acts out her suppressed, conflicted desires. The narrative is a tightly focused exploration of personal identity, psychological duality, and the fear of losing one's life and self to an alter ego born from inner turmoil. The conflict is entirely internal and universally human, revolving around individual struggle with ambition versus domestic life, not external political or social hierarchies. The film is devoid of contemporary Western 'woke' ideology, focusing instead on character-driven mystery and supernatural suspense.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The film is a Japanese production with a Japanese cast. The entire premise is driven by a psychological/supernatural phenomenon affecting individuals regardless of immutable characteristics. Character conflict is based on personal merit and internal psychological struggle, not race or intersectional hierarchy.

Oikophobia1/10

The movie is set within contemporary Japanese society and its core conflict is a universal, supernatural one about self-identity and duality. There is no evidence of hostility toward its own culture or ancestors, nor is the setting framed as fundamentally corrupt or racist.

Feminism3/10

The main female lead, Shinobu, is an artist whose bilocation is born from the conflicted desire between her artistic career and her married life. This focuses heavily on a woman’s struggle for self-fulfillment but frames the conflict as an internal dilemma rather than an anti-natalist lecture. Her husband is portrayed as a 'warm-hearted man,' preventing the typical 'emasculation' or 'toxic male' tropes.

LGBTQ+1/10

The narrative centers on a traditional male-female relationship and the supernatural problem of a doppelgänger. There is no presence of alternative sexual ideologies, deconstruction of the nuclear family, or lecturing on gender theory.

Anti-Theism2/10

The phenomenon of bilocation has roots in mystical/religious history, but the film grounds the doppelgänger's creation in intense, conflicted human emotion (psychology). While this establishes a secular/humanistic basis for morality over a transcendent one, there is no active vilification of religion or Christian characters.