Vital (film)

Vital
Vital film poster
Directed by	Shinya Tsukamoto
Written by	Shinya Tsukamoto
Produced by	Shinya Tsukamoto
Starring	Tadanobu Asano Nami Tsukamoto
Cinematography	Shinya Tsukamoto
Edited by	Shinya Tsukamoto
Music by	Chu Ishikawa
Distributed by	Gold View Company Ltd.
Release date	2004 (2004) (Japan)
Running time	86 min.
Language	Japanese

Vital (ヴィタール) is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It stars Tadanobu Asano as Hiroshi Takagi, a man whose girlfriend dies and who loses his memory in a car accident.

The original concept that inspired Vital was the image of medical students making sketches during a dissection. Tsukamoto visited a medical school and observed a dissection while writing the screenplay, which was originally titled: Dissection Film Project. Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical sketches were a direct inspiration.^[1]