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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0842498030134 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Tartan Video Languages: Manufacturer: Tartan Video MPN: DTVD3013D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Tartan Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 24, 2006 Running Time: 86 minutes Studio: Tartan Video Theatrical Release Date: 2004 Editorial Review: Description: Hiroshi Takagi returns home to begin his new life after having his memory wiped away in an auto accident. Fascinated by a dusty dissection textbook, he enrolls in medical school where he catches the eye of Izumi, a beautiful fellow student who desires his attention. But its another beauty that becomes his obsessionthe dead woman on the cadaver table. Starting with the tattoo on her arm, patterns of recognition begin to return to Hiroshi and soon he is having visions of a life with this woman. The deeper he cuts into her flesh, the closer he gets to unlocking the dark memories of his forgotten past. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Awesome movieI am a big fan of the Tartan Asia Extreme videos. This one was not as scary as others, but had a lot of good psychological undertones. The main character is very interesting to watch. Rating:  - OverlaudedI am a fan of all Asian horror, and I was kind of disappointed in this film. It is a horror? Is it a romance? Is it a meditation on death and the survival of personality and self? I don't get it. I just didn't like it and the ending was poor as well. Rating:  - The Ghost of a Memory"Vital" is not an easy film to enjoy. The pace is decidedly slow. The story is dense and obfuscated. The subject matter is bleak. A good question to ask yourself before viewing it is, can you find a love story in an autopsy? But then, director Shinya Tsukamoto is not known for his films being easy to enjoy. "Tetsuo, The Iron Man" and "A Snake in June" are probably his two best know films in the West, and they are far more Art House than entertainment. While "Vital" is much more ... Read More Rating: - Shinya Tsukamoto rules.Vital (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2004) Shinya Tsukamoto began his career by quickly becoming, as All-Movie Guide calls him, "the master of body horror" with Tetsuo: The Iron Man and its sequel Bodyhammer. He got away from that relatively quickly, though, and starting in the late nineties, Tsukamoto turned his talent to deep, slow-paced psychological dramas. Vital continues on in that tradition, and when you get Shinya Tsukamoto behind the camera and Tadanobu Asano in front of it, you're pretty ... Read More Rating: - tsukamoto's masterpiecei almost cried after watching this film for the first time. not because of the story so much as just the beauty of the film. its just so amazing to see how far tsukamoto has come, from the brilliant independence that was tetsuo to this, the film is just nothing short of magnificent. the story itself is certainly much deeper than most other films from the director. it also seems a lot more personal as well, maybe it only struck a personal chord with myself. the story was very dark & surreal. ... Read More |
