Vital

Vital

2004 · 86 min · ★ 6.7 · Drama, Thriller, Romance

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.

Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto · Written by Shinya Tsukamoto

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