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Name: Cure
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Genre: crime, horror, mystery, thriller
Released: 1997
Duration: 1 h 51 min
Rating: 7.5

Cure has an iRankMovies score of 79.1/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Cure (1997)

キュア

Madness. Terror. Murder.

Release:1997

Runtime:1h 51m

Country:Japan

Director:Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Language:Japanese

Genre

CrimeHorrorMystery

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Keywords

HotelProstituteAmnesiaBased On Novel Or BookInvestigationHallucinationInterviewmurder

iRank79

Cure rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.5/10· 37K votes

Rotten Tomatoes94%

Metacritic70%

TMDb7.555/10· 787 votes

With 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.5/10 on IMDb and 70/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Cure

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Cast of Cure

Koji Yakusho
as Kenichi Takabe
Masato Hagiwara
as Kunio Mamiya
Tsuyoshi Ujiki
as Makoto Sakuma
Anna Nakagawa
as Fumie Takabe
Yukijiro Hotaru
as Ichiro Kuwano
Yoriko Doguchi
as Dr. Akiko Miyajima
Denden
as OIda
Ren Osugi
as Fujiwara
Masahiro Toda
as Tôru Hanaoka
Misayo Haruki
as Tomoko Hanaoka
Shun Nakayama
as Kimura
Akira Otaka
as Yasukawa

Cure facts

Original title: キュア
Budget: $20K
Box office: $234.8K

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Japanese horror-thriller examines obsession with clinical psychological precision
•Kurosawa builds creeping dread through sustained atmospheric tension masterfully
•Bold narrative structure defies genre conventions with experimental boldness

What the audience disliked

•Deliberately obscure storytelling alienates viewers preferring straightforward plotting
•Cerebral approach prioritizes philosophical themes over traditional thriller excitement