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Cure

Cure

Madness. Terror. Murder.

19977.51h 52m

Overview

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

Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Written by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Produced by Satoshi Kanno, Tsutomu Tsuchikawa, Tetsuya Ikeda
Box OfficeBudget: $20KRevenue: $235K

Top Cast

Koji Yakusho

Koji Yakusho

Kenichi Takabe

Masato Hagiwara

Masato Hagiwara

Kunio Mamiya

Tsuyoshi Ujiki

Tsuyoshi Ujiki

Makoto Sakuma

Anna Nakagawa

Anna Nakagawa

Fumie Takabe

Yukijiro Hotaru

Yukijiro Hotaru

Ichiro Kuwano

Yoriko Doguchi

Yoriko Doguchi

Dr. Akiko Miyajima

Denden

Denden

OIda

Ren Osugi

Ren Osugi

Fujiwara

Masahiro Toda

Masahiro Toda

Tôru Hanaoka

Misayo Haruki

Misayo Haruki

Tomoko Hanaoka

Themes & Keywords

hotelprostituteamnesiabased on novel or bookinvestigationhallucinationinterviewmurderserial killertokyo, japaninterrogationstrangerhypnotismpsychosisrecord playermental hospitalaggressiveneo-noirpersonality disorderanxioussinisterbold

About Cure

Cure is a crime, thriller, horror, mystery film released in 1997 exploring themes of hotel, prostitute, amnesia, based on novel or book, investigation, hallucination. Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, it stars Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki. A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.

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