Vital

Hospital room. Fluorescent hum. Textbooks. Amnesiac Hiroshi fixates on anatomy, enrolls in med school. A live classmate vies for his attention while Hiroshi fixates on the corpse he's tasked to dissect. Tsukamoto's clinical gaze implicates the viewer.

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Shinya Tsukamoto directed Vital in 2004. See Shinya Tsukamoto's full filmography, where to start with Shinya Tsukamoto, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shinya Tsukamoto.

Vital was released in 2004 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 86 minutes.