Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s spellbinding international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of the 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 bearing the same grisly hallmarks — leads Detective Kenichi 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 a mood of hushed, hypnotic dread, Cure is a tour de force of psychological tension and a hallucinatory journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind.
This cult classic from Kiyoshi Kurosawa was suggested by VIFF+ Premium member Dallas Hunt: “A beguiling and unsettling film.”
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara
Japan
1997
In Japanese with English subtitles
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Credits
Screenwriter
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cinematography
Tokushô Kikumura
Editor
Kan Suzuki, Asako Takatsuka
Original Music
Gary Ashiya</p
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