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Cure (キュア, Kyua) is a 1997 Japanese psychological horror film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Kōji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki and Anna Nakagawa. The story follows a detective investigating a string of gruesome murders where an X is carved into the neck of each victim, and the murderer is found near the ...
Jul 8, 2001 · Cure: Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. With Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa. A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.
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- Crime, Horror, Mystery
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- 2001-07-08
Dec 14, 2021 · Cure (キュア, Kyua) is a 1997 Japanese mystery-horror film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Kōji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki and Anna Nakagawa. The story follows a detective investigating a string of gruesome murders where an X is carved into the neck of each victim, and the murderer is found near the victim ...
- 111 min
- 75.2K
- Survival Horror Archive
We see this in the film, when Sakuma shows Takabe old university tapes of the Japanese professor performing a hypnotic “healing ritual” on one if his patients — an elderly woman who would then go on to murder her son, carving the notorious “x” pattern into his neck.
Music. Gary Ashiya. 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.
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Nov 8, 2022 · Seongyong Cho November 08, 2022. Tweet. Kiyoshi Kurosawa ’s 1997 film “Cure,” whose 4K restoration version was released in South Korean theaters this July and distributed by the Criterion Collection several months later, is an unnerving, creepy masterwork that will haunt you in more than one way.
Feb 17, 2024 · Cure, a Japanese psychological thriller film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, was released in 1997 and has since become a cult classic in the genre. The film follows a detective named Kenichi Takabe as he investigates a series of mysterious murders that all seem to be connected by a strange man named Mamiya.
