Cure

"Madness. Terror. Murder."

1997 1h 51m JA

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7.6

BANGER

★7.6TMDB · 904

HorrorMysteryCrime

Synopsis

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

“Madness. Terror. Murder.”

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Cast

Koji Yakusho
Kenichi Takabe
Masato Hagiwara
Kunio Mamiya
Tsuyoshi Ujiki
Makoto Sakuma
Anna Nakagawa
Fumie Takabe
Yukijiro Hotaru
Ichiro Kuwano
Yoriko Doguchi
Dr. Akiko Miyajima
Denden
OIda
Ren Osugi
Fujiwara

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writers: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Grossed $0M — a 11.7× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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29 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, shot by Tokushō Kikumura. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Gary Ashiya. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Kan Suzuki shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Koji Yakusho and Masato Hagiwara and Tsuyoshi Ujiki carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Madness. Terror. Murder.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs. Tokushō Kikumura behind the camera. Gary Ashiya scores. Kan Suzuki cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $0.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Grossed $0M — a 11.7× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
329 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, shot by Tokushō Kikumura. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Gary Ashiya. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Kan Suzuki shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Koji Yakusho and Masato Hagiwara and Tsuyoshi Ujiki carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Madness. Terror. Murder.".
9IMDB entry: tt0123948 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 23 themes, including "hotel", "prostitute", "amnesia", "based on novel or book".
11Released under 10 different titles around the world.