Cinema
Cure
キュア
Kiyoshi Kurosawa · 1997
Synopsis
In Tokyo, a series of murders is repeated: each victim bears an X carved from the neck to the chest, and each murderer, arrested near the scene, confesses without being able to give a motive, according to allcinema. Inspector Takabe, whose wife suffers from mental disorders and gets lost in the neighbourhood, makes no headway despite the help of a psychiatrist friend, according to Offi. A young amnesiac man, Mamiya, found near one of the scenes, becomes the focus of the investigation: Takabe suspects him of driving people to murder through hypnosis, according to Moria and AlloCiné.
Context
The screenplay is by the director, and the production by Daiei. The film was to be called “The Evangelist”, but the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway by a sect occurred during the shoot, and a producer at the studio proposed the English title so that the murders would not be linked to a religion. The film was presented at the Tokyo International Film Festival on 6 November 1997, where its lead actor, Yakusho Kōji, received the acting prize, and was released in cinemas on 27 December that year.
Who it is for
A little under two hours of police investigation, between serial murders, hypnosis and marital disorder.
Prizes and reception
Revealed at the Tokyo festival, it brought its author to attention abroad and preceded the wave of Japanese horror of the late nineties.
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