Cure
1997 · Movie · NR · 111 min · ★ 7.6 · 82% critics
A frustrated detective investigates several gruesome murders committed by people who don’t remember what they’ve done. With no clear motive and unsettling connections between cases, the investigation spirals into something beyond anyone’s control.
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Details
- Original title
- キュア
- Years
- 1997
- Release date
- 1997-12-27
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Critic score
- 82/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 (796 votes)
About
If you enjoy slow-burn Japanese mystery-horror thrillers with an unsettling atmosphere and baffling motives, you may like Cure; Not for you if you want clear answers, fast pacing, or straightforward endings like Pulse or Nightmare Detective.
Pros: eerie, captivating atmosphere; gory mystery intrigue; strong performances | Cons: slow pacing; thin explanations; repetitive structure
Themes
- hotel
- prostitute
- amnesia
- based on novel or book
- investigation
- hallucination
- interview
- murder
- serial killer
- tokyo, japan
- interrogation
- stranger
- +10 more
Cast & crew
Koji Yakusho
as Kenichi Takabe
Masato Hagiwara
as Kunio Mamiya
Tsuyoshi Ujiki
as Makoto Sakuma
Anna Nakagawa
as Fumie Takabe
Yukijiro Hotaru
as Ichiro Kuwano
Yoriko Doguchi
as Dr. Akiko Miyajima
Denden
as OIda
Ren Osugi
as Fujiwara
Masahiro Toda
as Tôru Hanaoka
Misayo Haruki
as Tomoko Hanaoka
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa