On my first watch, I didn't fully apreciate at the times and I was in denial on how longlegs obviously pulls a lot from this but now, after watching more of kiyoshi's work this is able to use his style of atmosphere, loneliness, nihilism and sound to its almost maximal potential.
Behind everything and everyone there is a boiling need for violence and cure more then anything sees multiple individuals finally releasing that violence out in the open.
The film is hypnotic, yes but the only thing the hypnotism did in the actual film was show what they wanted, what underneath those polite and easy exteriors wanted to do.
Kiyoshi knows how to bend horror to its most humanist form.
Cure isn't simply a movie about a hypnotic serial killer, its a display on the brutal nature beneath society that could be unleashed and has been for so many.
Koji yakusho like in every kiyoshi film he's in is stellar and you also can feel the budget with this one as uses a lot more setpieces and characters.(Watch my feature film https://boxd.it/cQ1mBp )
Cure
Madness. Terror. Murder.
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Release Date
12/27/1997Runtime
112 minsOverview
A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
JapaneseBudget
$20,000Revenue
$99,000Homepage
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A suffocating descent into urban alienation and fractured minds, where the line between detective and killer dissolves into something far more unsettling. Every interrogation and interview peels back layers of psychological contamination that spread like infection through Tokyo's underbelly.
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