Parasite Eve
It's not a virus... it's evolution.
Toshiaki Nagashima is a biologist who is doing major research on mitochondria. When his beautiful young wife is tragically involved in a car accident which leaves her brain dead, in desperation he steals her liver from her body in order to recieve the mitochondria from it to resurrect his wife from the dead. The killer mitochondria takes the form of his assistant.
- Year: 1997
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Science Fiction, Horror, Romance
- Studio: Robot Communications, Fuji Television Network, KADOKAWA Shoten
- Keyword: based on novel or book, biologist, mitochondria
- Director: Masayuki Ochiai
- Cast: Hiroshi Mikami, Riona Hazuki, Tomoko Nakajima, Ayako Omura, Goro Inagaki, Hisako Manda