Vital

(2004)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 115 votes

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Romance

Year: 2004

Runtime: 86 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 塚本晋也

Cast: Таданобу Асано, 柄本奈美, Kiki, 串田和美, りりィ, 木野花, 利重剛, Дзюн Кунимура, Иттоку Кисибэ, 辻岡正人

Plot

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.

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.