Vital

Limited Edition

Running Time: 86

Genre: Feature, Foreign

Certificate: 18

Language: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Japanese supernatural thriller written and directed by Shin'ya Tsukamoto. Takagi (Tadanobu Asano) is badly injured in a car accident that also killed his girlfriend Ryôko (Nami Tsukamoto). When he eventually recovers, he has no memories of his previous life, including Ryôko. A blank slate, Takagi finds a series of medical textbooks in his parents' house and decides to enrol in medical school. While going through the motions of a normal life, Takagi becomes increasingly obsessed with the corpse of a young woman in his dissection class. Gradually his memories start returning as he realises that the body is Ryôko. Growing more protective of her body, Takagi also starts experiencing waking dreams about her, but is he hallucinating or has he found a way of communicating with Ryôko's spirit?