Hiroshi wakes up in a hospital room and realizes that he was in a serious car accident that caused the death of his girlfriend, Ryoko, as well as the loss of his memory. While trying to regain his memory, one of the first clues that Hiroshi finds are his old medical textbooks that he studied prior to his accident. This gives him a renewed purpose in life and he delves forward into his medical school studies. During a 4-month period, in which his class dissects human cadavers, Hiroshi realizes that the body that he is dissecting is the body of his former girlfriend, Ryoko, which causes more of Hiroshi’s memory to return.
Vital is a far cry from Shinya Tsukamoto's earlier films such as Tetsuo (1989) and Tokyo Fist (1995). Gone is the crazy camera-work, and the film doesn't go absolutely nuts as those ones, it just feels more mature and emotionally engaging.
Genre: Drama
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