Vital

Dec 11 2004 R 1h 26m
Drama, Thriller

A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to medical school. There he catches the eye of a fellow student, but it's another who becomes his obsession: the dead woman on the cadaver table.

Plot

After a tragic car accident where his girlfriend Ryôko Ooyama (Nami Tsukamoto) died, Hiroshi Takagi (Tadanobu Asano) suffers amnesia with his memories completely blanked. When he sees a book about dissection, he decides to join the medical school with the support of his parents. In the dissection class, his group participates of the autopsy of a young woman, and while cutting apart the tissue, he partially recalls his accident. Later, when he sees a tattoo in the arm of the corpse, he discloses that she was his girlfriend and becomes obsessed to go further in the examination of the body.

Written by

Shin'ya Tsukamoto

Directed by

Shin'ya Tsukamoto

Cast

Tadanobu Asano, Nami Tsukamoto, Kiki

Crew

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Production Countries

Japan

Production Companies

Kaijyu Theater

Languages

Awards

5 wins & 3 nominations

Trailers
VITAL (2004) Japanese trailer for Shinya Tsukamoto's inquiry into the nature of the flesh
Scores
# of Votes
3,501
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA