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Vital
2004
A man awakes in a hospital after a car accident to discover that he has lost his memory. At first he is unable to even recognise his parents, but, as his memories return so does his earlier interest in medicine. After enrolling in a medical course, he soon finds himself having to dissect a female corpse who looks strangely .. Read more
| Starring | Tadanobu Asano, Nami Tsukamoto, Kiki, Kazuyoshi Kushida |
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| Director | Shinya Tsukamoto |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Vital
A man awakes in a hospital after a car accident to discover that he has lost his memory. At first he is unable to even recognise his parents, but, as his memories return so does his earlier interest in medicine. After enrolling in a medical course, he soon finds himself having to dissect a female corpse who looks strangely familiar...
| Starring | Tadanobu Asano, Nami Tsukamoto, Kiki, Kazuyoshi Kushida, Lily, Hana Kino |
|---|---|
| Director | Shinya Tsukamoto |
| Studio | PALISADES TARTAN |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 26 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Japanese |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 20 Feb 2006 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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The latest from the director of Tetsuo, Tokyo Fist and A Snake of June is a flesh feast of more... read more on Time Out
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A full frontal confrontation with grief and loss.
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10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
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Slow and uninteresting
An interesting idea for a movie, but the final product was very unimpressive and uninteresting on the whole. There was a perfectly acceptable slow pace to the film, but Vital was just not a film I could really get into or get interested in, and in the end I really didn’t really see the point of the film! The filmed looked good on the whole though (the drawings shown at various time throughout looked particularly great), and there was a pretty good central performance from Tadanobu Asano (Ichi The Killer). The film was short at 76-minute, but even at that length it seemed to drag at times!
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
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Truly, Madly,Deeply as directed by David Lynch
This is a strange film, so of course you start thinking oh oh Lynchian territory. A young man has been in an accident and can remember very little. He slowly recalls that he was interested in medicine so takes up a course and when they have to spend some time dissecting bodies he finds that the body is that of his girlfriend who died in the crash. Instead of heading off into some schlock horror the story becomes a meditation on life and meaning in the face of death (well my interpretaion of it anyway). Recommended for fans of cinema rather than film.
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