Hiroshi Takagi (Asano) is a young man who has just regained consciousness having slipped into a coma following the horrible car accident which claimed the life of his girlfriend Ryoko. Takagi awakes with no memory of any sort: not of the accident not of his family not of his girlfriend. His parents both doctors take him home where he discovers a box full of old medical textbooks and fascinated he subsequently enrolls in medical school. Still Takagi is a shell of a man; he show
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Hiroshi Takagi (Asano) is a young man who has just regained consciousness having slipped into a coma following the horrible car accident which claimed the life of his girlfriend Ryoko Takagi awakes with no memory of any sort not of the accident not of his family not of his girlfriend His parents both doctors take him home where he discovers a box full of old medical textbooks and fascinated he subsequently enrolls in medical school Still Takagi is a shell of a man; he shows no interest in any of his classmates even the attractive young woman who slowly becomes obsessed with him and lives alone in a squalid apartment The first glimmer of life appears when Takagi begins his dissection class and he starts to explore the corpse of a young woman with a tattoo on her arm a tattoo which slowly begins to dislodge fragments of Takagi&39;s memories He eventually comes to realize that the corpse he is dissecting is none other than Ryoko his former girlfriend As he continues to work more of his past returns and he grows increasingly protective of Ryoko&39;s corpse Eventually he begins having waking dreams of his lover Are they memories? Fantasies? Or has he tapped into some sort of supernatural reality in which he can interact with Ryoko&39;s spirit? Takagi becomes increasingly distant from reality as he pursues Ryoko beyond death Actors Tadanobu Asano Nami Tsukamoto Kiki Kazuyoshi Kushida Lily Hana Kino Go Riju Jun Kunimura & Ittoku Kishibe Director Shinya Tsukamoto Certificate 18 years and over Year 2004 Screen 1781 Anamorphic Languages Japanese - Dolby Digital (51) ; DTS ; Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles English Duration 2 hours and 14 minutes (approx)
Supernatural Japanese thriller. Takagi (Tadanobu Asano) is badly injured in a car accident that also kills his girlfriend Ryoko (Nami Tsukamoto). When he eventually recovers, he has no memories of his previous life, or of Ryoko. A blank shell of a man, Takagi finds a series of medical textbooks in his parents' house and decides to enroll in medical school. While going through the motions of a normal life, Takagi becomes increasingly obsessed with the corpse of a young woman in his dissection class. Gradually his memories start returning as he realises that the body is that of his dead girlfriend Ryoko. Growing more protective of the body, Takagi also starts experiencing waking dreams of his dead girlfriend, but is Takagi suffering hallucinations as a result of his mental state, or has he found some way of communicating with Ryoko's spirit?
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