Vital (2004)
- Original title
- ヴィタール
- Directed by
- Shinya Tsukamoto
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Rated
- 15
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 112 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man loses his memory in a car accident that also kills his girlfriend. He enrolls in medical school and finds the woman's body in his dissection class.
meditativeclinicalintrospectivesomberslow-burnvisually starkcontemplativeunsettling
What happens
Vital (Japanese: ヴィタール, Hepburn: Vitāru) is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It stars Tadanobu Asano as Hiroshi Takagi, a man whose girlfriend dies and who loses his memory in a car accident. The original concept that inspired Vital was the image of medical students making sketches during a dissection. Tsukamoto visited a medical school and observed a dissection while writing the screenplay, which was originally titled: Dissection Film Project. Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical sketches were a direct inspiration. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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