Vital

Vital

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Release Date

12/11/2004

Runtime

86 mins

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 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.

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

-

Revenue

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Homepage

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A haunting meditation on memory and desire that uses medical school as a staging ground for one man's escalating fixation on a corpse. Slow-burning and deeply uncomfortable, it explores the gap between attraction and reality.

Mood

TenseUnsettlingWistful

Themes

ObsessionMemoryIdentityMortality

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticFormalist

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violence

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