Cure

Name: Cure
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Released: 1997-01-01

1997 film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

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Released: 1997
, December 27, 1997
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Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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Screenwriter: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Producer: Tetsuya Ikeda
, Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
, Hiroyuki Katō
Cast: Kōji Yakusho
, Anna Nakagawa
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, Masato Hagiwara
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, Ren Ōsugi
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Runtime: 107 min
Genre: horror film
, psychological horror fiction
Country of origin: Japan

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Cure is a 1997 Japanese psychological horror thriller film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Starring Koji Yakusho and Masato Hagiwara, it follows a detective investigating a series of murders whose perpetrators all confess under strange circumstances, seemingly being driven to kill by an unknown force. As the story develops, the police realise all the murderers are in contact with a mysterious young man, who appears to have extreme memory loss. The film received positive reviews from critics and has been described in later commentary as influential on the late-1990s wave of Japanese horror cinema.

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Film editor: Kan Suzuki
Title: キュア
FSK film rating: FSK 16
Color: color
Director of photography: Tokushō Kikumura
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CNC film rating (France): no minors under twelve
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Narrative location: Tokyo
Distribution format: video on demand
Assessment: Bechdel test assessment outcome: fails · criterion used: considering named characters only
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Review score: 70/100(February 4, 2024) review score by: Metacritic · number of reviews/ratings: 13 critic review
93%(October 6, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 54 critic review
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7.3/10(October 6, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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EIRIN film rating: G rating certificate id: 115049
Filming location: Tsukishima
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Oamishirasato
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Maejuku-cho
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Chūō-ku
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Kawasaki
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