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Cure

Cast

Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Yukijiro Hotaru View All


Crew

Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Screenplay), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Director) View All

Release: Nov. 6th, 1997
Runtime: 1 hour, 51 minutes
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere...
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Takoma11
a psychiatrist who realizes he has been "touched" by Mamiya chooses to handcuff himself to a pipe, finally turning his homicidal impulses on himself rather than kill someone else.
Thief
So the film unfolds in two halves, the first of which plays in a more or less straightforward, procedural way, as we see Takabe and his psychologist partner Sakuma (Tsuyoshi Ujiki) play a cat-and-mouse game to find whoever's causing the murders.
Iroquois
Another film where I've gone in knowing next to nothing about it other than it is considerably acclaimed and something of a cult film, it's very easy to apply one's own frames of reference to Cure in order to make sufficient sense of it.


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