
Cure [Sub: Eng]
Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) is tracking a series of identical murders, committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done. Police suspect the unstable, psychiatric student Mimiya of implanting hypnotic suggestions into victims minds to commit the crimes.
















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May 03, 2005
The single best horror film I've seen this century.
March 26, 2009
Tone and atmosphere mirror subject to perfection in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's hypnotic trip into the lower depths of the human mind.
October 08, 2001
Cure has a cumulative power of horror which even seasoned filmgoers will not be able to resist.
January 31, 2005
...what is this, an episode of The Flintstones?
September 05, 2009
Fragmented identity becomes the ultimate horror
October 17, 2011
It's unsatisfying as a story precisely because it aspires to create a mounting sense of dread by enlarging questions rather than answering them.
June 24, 2006
It's well enough acted and directed to advance Kurosawa's claim to be taken as an important new voice in Japanese cinema.
December 06, 2005
There is no clear-cut conclusion. The film is not wrapped up in a nice neat little package. Kurosawa shows us a glimpse into this strange world and then pulls away, leaving us to figure out the answers, answers that may never come.
June 06, 2004
Though there's a memorable final confrontation in the protagonist's mind, and a heck of a closing, most of the film's second half isn't nearly moody enough.
January 03, 2002
A fascinating artifact as well as a most engrossing thriller.
June 28, 2004
The approach is not an especially deep one, and in Cure it's given more deliberation than it can bear.
June 06, 2002
Tough to shake even when it feels more like an exercise than a movie.