Kurôn wa kokyô wo mezasu

A quirky little movie sitting at the crossroads between sci-fi, family trauma, identity and generally psychological drama, with a touch of the surreal or spiritual, depending on your take. It came highly recommended, but to me that's all it manages to achieve, quirky little movie status. It's a slow burn descent into family trauma and guilt (I was questioning the pretty long inroad into Kohei's childhood all of a sudden, till it all started to make sense).

Yeah, clones are creepy. I have seen some of those movies. Not this one though. There's a lot of love here, and loss and despair and reliving trauma and the cloning is just the gimmick by which the character(s) are given the opportunity to explore all these. You could also argue it's a curse, sure. I don't think the writer/director needed to use cloning, but it would have been a different movie.

Very little sci-fi, in case you're looking for that.