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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (novel)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (screenplay)
Release Date:
8 July 2001 (USA) more
Tagline:
Madness. Terror. Murder. more
Plot:
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims... more | add synopsis
Awards:
9 wins & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(15 articles)
400 Screens, 400 Blows - Asian Melodramas
(From Cinematical. 20 September 2009, 7:03 AM, PDT)
Still Talking (to Hirokazu Kore-eda)
(From GreenCine Daily. 22 August 2009, 1:37 PM, PDT)
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Subliminal to Visceral and back more (40 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kôji Yakusho | ... | Kenichi Takabe |
| Masato Hagiwara | ... | Kunio Mamiya |
| Tsuyoshi Ujiki | ... | Makoto Sakuma |
| Anna Nakagawa | ... | Fumie Takabe |
| Yoriko Douguchi | ... | Dr. Akiko Miyajima |
| Yukijirô Hotaru | ... | Ichiro Kuwano |
| Denden | ... | Oida |
| Ren Ôsugi | ... | Fujiwara |
| Masahiro Toda | ... | Tôru Hanaoka |
| Misayo Haruki | ... | Tomoko Hanaoka |
| Shun Nakayama | ... | Kimura |
| Akira Otaka | ... | Yasukawa |
| Shogo Suzuki | ... | Tamura |
| Toshi Kato | ... | Psychiatrist |
| Hajime Tanimoto | ... | Takabe no shachô |
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Also Known As:
Cure (International: English title)
Kyua (Japan) (alternative title)
The Cure (UK)
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Runtime:
111 min | Taiwan:115 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
France:-12 | South Korea:15 (DVD rating)
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Continuity: When the detective first goes to Mamiya's apartment, the landlord tells him he has not seen Mamiya for six months. Yet, when the detective enters the dark, long deserted apartment, the "lab" animals are still perfectly healthy. No explanation is offered as to how they survived with their owner gone for so long. more
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A delicate, yet exceptionally gorey murder mystery from Japan. Truly so psychological, that I'm still not sure what might have been real and what might have been a Jungian chase through the house of a man's mind. The images bleed from the mundane and sterile to the nightmarish with such subtlety and grace, that I began to question the reality of the simplest scenes.
The film is as dreamlike and subliminal as the villain it chases. Not really a thriller, though I had no clue what might happen to who next. Not really suspenseful, though I couldn't look away in fear of missing a detail. It is DELIBERATELY PACED, which might put off the typical murder mystery fan. However, if you just sit back and stare into the light, as do the hapless victims of the film, you will find it to be an unnerving experience.