19971h 51mDir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cure

Name: Cure
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Crime
Released: 1997-12-27
Duration: 1 h 51 min
Rating: 5
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Yukijiro Hotaru

“Madness. Terror. Murder.”

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

Starring:Koji Yakusho,Masato Hagiwara,Tsuyoshi Ujiki,Anna Nakagawa,Yukijiro Hotaru

Featured Cast

(12 actors)

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

Key Production Crew

Director

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Screenplay & Writers

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cinematography

Tokushō Kikumura

Original Score

Gary Ashiya

Producers

Tetsuya Ikeda, Atsuyuki Shimoda, Satoshi Kanno

Film Details

Budget$20,000

Box Office Revenue$234,821

Original Languageja

Production Studios

Daiei FilmTwins Japan

Keywords & Themes

#hotel#prostitute#amnesia#based on novel or book#investigation#hallucination#interview#murder#serial killer#tokyo, japan

Community Reviews & Logs

Aniket Shukla @aniket11

Oct 13, 2026

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5.0

A KIYOSHI KUROSAWA MASTERPIECE. What's unique about the film is it's eeriness with subtlety. It's something that stays with you for a long time. Kiyoshi made sure the eerie, spooky and horrific atmosphere of this film do...

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