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Seen on: 03/04/2009

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Vital (2004)

Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto

Drama | Thriller

Most recently watched by sensoria, sleestakk

Overview

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 a medical school where he catches the eye of a fellow student. But it’s another who becomes his obsession. the dead woman on the cadaver table.

Length 86 minutes

Actors

Jun Kunimura | Tadanobu Asano | Ittoku Kishibe | Lily | Gô Rijû | Hana Kino | Masato Tsujioka | Nami Tsukamoto | Kiki | Kazuyoshi Kushida

Viewing Notes

Shinya Tsukamoto’s Vital is stirring drama piece borderline on horror but not really horrific as it is disturbing. Not the most compelling viewing but interesting nonetheless if you enjoy the slow pacing as I do. I can watch Tadanobu Asano in anything he does. He probably has only a page of dialog during course of the entire film but his performance is moving.

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