- Vital (film)
Infobox Film | name = Vital
caption = "Vital" DVD cover
director =Shinya Tsukamoto
producer =Shinya Tsukamoto
writer =Shinya Tsukamoto
starring =Tadanobu Asano Nami Tsukamoto
music =Chu Ishikawa
cinematography =
editing =
distributor =Gold View Company Ltd.
released = 2004 (Japan )
runtime = 86 min.
language = Japanese
budget =
amg_id = 1:315514
imdb_id = 0417243"Vital" is a
Japan ese film made in2004 . It was directed byShinya Tsukamoto and starsTadanobu 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 DaVinci's anatomical sketches were a direct inspiration. [Shinya Tsukamoto, Interview included on Vital DVD. Tartan Video.]
Plot
Hiroshi (
Tadanobu Asano ) wakes up in a hospital room and realizes that he was in a serious car accident that caused the death of his girlfriend, Ryoko (Nami Tsukamoto ), as well as the loss of his memory. While trying to regain his memory, one of the first clues that Hiroshi finds are his old medical textbooks that he studied prior to his accident. This gives him a renewed purpose in life and he delves forward into hismedical school studies. One of his medical school classmates, Ikumi (Kiki ), soon becomes infatuated with Hiroshi, although he does not return her interests initially. During a 4 month period, in which his class dissects human cadavers, Hiroshi realizes that the body that he isdissecting is the body of his former girlfriend, Ryoko, which causes more of Hiroshi’s memory to return. During this time, Hiroshi engages in a relationship with his classmate Ikumi, that helps him recall further memories of his ex girlfriend. Ikumi, meanwhile, feels jealous rage because of Hiroshi’s devotion in dissecting the cadaver of Ryoko, while Hiroshi is consumed in the quest to understand who that person was that died in his car and ultimately find out who he really is.References
External links
*imdb title|id=0417243|title=Vital
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