Vital (2004)

Highly Recommended

Japan

Feature Film

Original Title: 死亡解剖

Writer/Director/Cinematographer: Tsukamoto Shinya

Composer: Ishikawa Chu

Cast: Asano Tadanobu, Tsukamoto Nami, Kiki, Kushida Kazuyoshi, Lily, Kino Hana, Rijū Gō, Kunimura Jun, Kishibe Ittoku

A medical student, suffering with amnesia following the car accident that caused the death of his girlfriend, restarts his studies, but when his memories begin to come back to him, and he commences the dissection of a strangely familiar corpse, he starts to question the validity of his consciousness, in Tsukamoto’s thoughtful, intriguing, and ultimately tremendously moving exploration of grief, guilt, memory, and spirituality. Iain.Stott