Movie
Vital
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2004-12-11
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Kaijyu Theater
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Tadanobu Asano as Hiroshi Takagi
- Nami Tsukamoto as Ryoko Ooyama
- Kiki as Ikumi
- Kazuyoshi Kushida as Hiroshi's Father
- Lily as Hiroshi's Mother
- Hana Kino as Mrs. Ooyama
- Go Riju as Dr. Nakai
- Jun Kunimura as Mr. Ooyama
- Ittoku Kishibe as Dr. Kashiwabuchi
- Masato Tsujioka
Crew
- Shinya Tsukamoto - Director
- Shinya Tsukamoto - Screenplay
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