Cure (1997)
Cure (1997)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
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
Masahiro Toda
Tôru Hanaoka
Misayo Haruki
Tomoko Hanaoka
Shun Nakayama
Kimura
Akira Otaka
Yasukawa
Shôgo Suzuki
Tamura
Touji Kawahigashi
Psychiatrist
Satoshi Jinno
Producer
Hajime Tanimoto
Takabe's superior
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director / Writer
Katsumi Kimura
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Fumiaki Suzaka
Set Decoration
Ryûsui Morita
Costume Design
Hiroshi Kotô
Costume Design
Tetsuya Ikeda
Producer
Shigeo Minakami
Co-Producer
Atsuyuki Shimoda
Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 27, 1997
Original Nameキュア
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 51m
Budget$20,000
Box Office$99,000
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This Movie Is About.
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Cure (キュア, Kyua) is a 1997 Japanese neo-noir psychological horror film
written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Kōji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki and Anna Nakagawa. The story follows a detective investigating a string of gruesome murders where an X is carved into the neck of each victim, and the murderer is found near the victim of each case and remembers the crime but does not know why they did it. The film is Kurosawa and Yakusho's first collaboration.
Originally entitled Evangelist (伝道師, Dendoushi), the film's name was changed due to the Tokyo subway sarin attack perpetrated by Aum Shinrikyo that happened while the film was in production. To avoid suggesting a religious cult connection to the crimes in the story, it was retitled Cure at the suggestion of a Daiei Film producer.
The film was released by Shochiku-Fuji Company on December 27, 1997. It received widespread positive reviews from critics, and is considered a progenitor of the explosion of Japanese horror media in the late 1990s and early 2000s, preceding other releases like Hideo Nakata's Ring and Takashi Shimizu's Ju-On.