Koma (2004)

Although medical science has greatly enhanced the quality and expected duration of the typical human life during the past century, this progress has not been made without collateral damage. For instance, with great strides made in organ-transplant technology, there are no longer enough healthy kidneys to go around. This shortage in working pee-processors provides the storyline for Koma (2004). The title of this Hong Kong suspense thriller translates literally from the Cantonese as "Help". "Help" is what any sentient character would cry for upon coming out of a drugged stupor to discover a surgical slice below the short ribs and an empty feeling where previously an essential chunk of anatomy had been. Perhaps if the morals and ethics of the criminal and law-enforcement worlds had evolved apace with the abilities of doctors and surgeons, the ring of organ harvesters who keep their Hong Kong victims shouting for Koma would more easily be put out of business.