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Cure

Cure

Crime · Thriller · Horror · 1997

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Movie details

Cure

“Madness. Terror. Murder.”

1997 Crime · Thriller · Horror 1h 51m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

7.6 / 10

Community rating

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Cure?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Written by

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

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

Court is in session

Put Cure on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.