Vital
2005 -
Rated
R (MPAA)
Release Date: 01/24/2006
Features:
DVD Features:
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Widescreen - 1.78
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - Japanese
DTS 5.1 Surround - Japanese
Additional Release Material:
Production Interviews: Shinya Tsukamoto - Director
Audio Commentary: Tom Mes - Author
Trailers:
1. Original Theatrical Trailer
2. Tartan Asia Extreme New Releases
Featurette:
1. Special Effects
2. Venice Film Festival World Premiere
3. THE MAKING OF VITAL
Original Language:
N/A
Time:
86
mins.
J&R Item # 1154910_1
UPC # 842498030134
Label: TLA Releasing
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Director Shinya Tsukamoto (TETSUO, A SNAKE OF JUNE) delivers an effectively haunting tale with VITAL, a macabre story in which life, death, love, and memory all interweave. When Hiroshi Takagi comes home following an auto accident that robbed him of his memory, he is looking for clues regarding his old life. Strangely attracted to an old medical textbook on the subject of dissection, Hiroshi signs up for med school on the impulsive hunch that it may bring him closer to his past. Once there, the young man finds himself in the oddest of love triangles, stuck between his relationship with a fellow student and with the cadaver he is assigned to carve into.
Cast:
"The mishmash of fantasies and flashbacks can confuse, but contains several rich digressions."
-- Matthew Leyland
, (Sight and Sound)
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