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Cure (Criterion Collection)

Daiei Studios (1997)

715515278010

7.5

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Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Japan | Japanese | Color | 01:51

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A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.

Cast View all

	Koji Yakusho	Det. Kenichi Takabe
	Masato Hagiwara	Kunio Mamiya
	Tsuyoshi Ujiki	Dr. Makoto Sakuma
	Anna Nakagawa	Fumie Takabe
	Misayo Haruki	Tomoko Hanaoka
	Yoriko Dôguchi	Dr. Akiko Miyajima
	Denden	Oida
	Ren Osugi	Police Commandant Fujiwara
	Masahiro Toda	Tôru Hanaoka
	Tôji Kawahigashi	Psychologist
	Yukijiro Hotaru	Ichirô Kuwano
	Shun Nakayama	Kimura
	Akira Ohtaka	Yasukawa
	Shogo Suzuki	Tamura
	Hajime Tanimoto	Takabe's Boss
	Takeshi Mikami	Truck Driver
	Taro Suwa	Apartment Manager
	Taijiro Tamura	Middle-Aged Man at Dry Cleaners
	Koji Sato	Dry Cleaners Employee
	Shinichiro Inoue	Dr. Miyajima's Young Patient
	Yuri Shimada	Nurse
	Kae Egawa	Waitress
	Mitsuyo Suwa	Hotel Murder Victim
	Emiko Hattori	Suzu Murakawa
	Setchin Kawaya	Official

Crew View all

Director	Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writer	Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Producer	Yoshihiko Harada, Tetsuya Ikeda, Satoshi Jinno, Hiroyuki Kato, Shigeo Masubuchi, Shigeo Minakami, Atsuyuki Shimoda, Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
Musician	Gary Ashiya
Photography	Tokusho Kikumura

Trailer

Edition details

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Index	2686
Added Date	Feb 25, 2024 23:38:02
Modified Date	Feb 25, 2024 23:40:12

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s arresting international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of an emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration. A string of shocking, seemingly unmotivated murders—each committed by a different person yet all bearing the same grisly hallmarks—leads Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) into a labyrinthine investigation to discover what connects them, and into a disturbing game of cat and mouse with an enigmatic amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) who may be evil incarnate. Awash in hushed, hypnotic dread, Cure is a tour de force of psychological tension and a hallucinatory journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
4K digital restoration, supervised by cinematographer Tokusho Kikumura, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack
New conversation between director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Interviews with actors Masato Hagiwara and Koji Yakusho
Interview from 2003 with Kurosawa
Trailers and teaser
PLUS: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara

New cover by Michael Boland