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

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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