# Cure (1997)

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**Original title**: *キュア*
**Runtime**: 111 min
**Genres**: Crime, Thriller, Horror, Mystery
**Directed by**: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
**Written by**: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
**Starring**: Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Yukijiro Hotaru, Yoriko Doguchi

> *Madness. Terror. Murder.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

The humid fringe of a Japanese summer. A flyer under a vending machine speaker hums intermittently.

A detective pries open the blank stare of a killer who doesn’t remember killing. Each suspect’s hands tremble when photographing the same absent smile.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa turns missing memory into a fog that drifts between genres.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, dread, paranoid, slow-burn, surreal

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