| Cure | |
|---|---|
 Special Edition DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Produced by | Producers: Tetsuya Ikeda Satoshi Kanno Atsuyuki Shimoda Tsutomu Tsuchikawa Co-producer: Shigeo Minakami Executive Producer: Hiroyuki Kato |
| Written by | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Music by | Gary Ashiya |
| Cinematography | Tokusho Kikumura |
| Editing by | Kan Suzuki |
| Distributed by | Shochiku |
| Released | December 27, 1997 |
| Running time | 111 min. |
| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
| JMDb profile | |
| Trailer | |
Cure (キュア) is a 1997 Japanese film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Plot summary[]
A bizarre series of murders occurs in which all of the victims have a large X carved in their flesh. Strangly, their murderers are different people, all found within the vicinity of the crime. They can give no motive other than thinking it was a perfectly normal thing to do.
Police detective Takabe is put in charge of the case with the assistance of a psychologist and their investigation eventually leads them to a strange drifter with the ability to influence people through hypnosis. In dealing with this man, Takabe's temper repeatedly gets the better of him and a battle of wills ensues.
Cast[]
- Kōji Yakushō as Kenichi Takabe
- Masato Hagiwara as Kunio Mamiya
- Tsuyoshi Ujiki as Makoto Sakuma
- Anna Nakagawa as Fumie Takabe
- Yoriko Douguchi as Dr. Akiko Miyajima
- Yukijiro Hotaru as Ichiro Kuwano
- Denden as Oida
- Ren Osugi as Fujiwara
- Masahiro Toda as Toru Hanaoka
- Misayo Haruki as Tomoko Hanaoka
- Shun Nakayama as Kimura
- Akira Otaka as Yasukawa
- Shogo Suzuki as Tamura
- Toshi Kato as Psychiatrist
- Hajime Tanimoto as Takabe no shacho
- Tsuyoshi Mikami as Truck Driver
- Makoto Kaketa as Policeman at the Hotel
- Yasujiro Tamura as Middle-Aged Man at Dry Cleaners
- Yasuharu Sato as Dry Cleaners Employee
- Shinichiro Inoue as Dr. Miyajima's Young Patient
- Yuri Shimada as Nurse
- Kae Egawa as Waitress
- Mitsuyo Suwa as Hotel Murder Victim
- Tetsushi Tanaka
- Kazutaka Arayama as Police Detective at the Hotel
- Emiko Hattori as Suzu Murakawa
- Secchin Kawaya as Kakarikan #1
- Takayuki Konishi as Kakarikan #2
- Kae Minami
- Taro Suwa as Apa to no shacho
- Hiromi Suzuki
- Makoto Togashi as Policeman
- Masato Yamaji as Police Detective
- Yuu Yamazaki
External links[]
- Cure review at Midnight Eye
- Cure (film) at Wikipedia