A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to medical school. There he catches the eye of a fellow student, but it's another who becomes his obsession: the dead woman on the cadaver table.
Direction
Tsukamoto's surgical precision—every cut feels personal.
Acting
Asano's hollow-eyed vacancy that somehow burns.
Cinematography
Steel blues and fleshy pinks that never let you breathe.
Director
Shinya Tsukamoto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tsukamoto cast his own sister Nami as Ryoko, making the director's gaze literally familial and even more unsettling.
The film explores Japan's actual 'donated body' medical school culture, where students traditionally name and thank their cadavers—here corrupted into erotic transgression.
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