Vital - Shinya Tsukamoto - 2004

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.


Un tímido joven pierde la memoria en un accidente de tráfico. Cuando recupera su identidad, regresa a la facultad de medicina y se obsesiona por la dissección. El cadáver de una chica tatuada le hará reencontrar el amor.

Dirección y guión: Shinya Tsukamoto.
País: Japón.
Año: 2004.
Duración: 86 min.
Género: Drama.
Interpretación: Tadanobu Asano (Hiroshi Takagi), Nami Tsukamoto (Ryôko), Kiki (Ikumi), Ittoku Kishibe (Dr. Kashiwabuchi), Kazumi Kushida (Padre de Hiroshi), Lily (Madre de Hiroshi), Jun Kunimura (Padre de Ryoko), Hana Kino (Madre de Ryoko), Go Rijyu (Dr. Nakai).
Producción: Shinya Tsukamoto, Shin-ichi Kawahara, Keiko Kusakabe, Koichi Kusakabe y Kiyo Joo.
Música: Chu Ishikawa.
Fotografía: Shinya Tsukamoto.
Montaje: Shinya Tsukamoto.
Dirección artística: Shinya Tsukamoto.