---
title: 'Cure (1997)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Kiyoshi Kurosawa'
released: '1997-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 107
genres:
  - 'Horror'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/cure-1997'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123948/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Cure (1997)

1997 · 107 min · Horror · Japan

Original title: キュア

## Synopsis

Cure  is a 1997 Japanese psychological horror film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Starring Koji Yakusho and Masato Hagiwara, it follows a detective investigating a series of murders whose perpetrators all confess under strange circumstances, seemingly being driven to kill by an unknown force. As the story develops, the police realise all the murderers are in contact with a mysterious young man, who appears to have extreme memory loss. The film received positive reviews from critics and has been described in later commentary as influential on the late-1990s wave of Japanese horror cinema.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Kiyoshi Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/kiyoshi-kurosawa)
- **Screenplay:** [Kiyoshi Kurosawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/kiyoshi-kurosawa)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Gary Ashiya](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-ashiya)
- **Producer:** [Hiroyuki Katō](https://cinepixo.com/people/hiroyuki-kato), [Tetsuya Ikeda](https://cinepixo.com/people/tetsuya-ikeda), [Tsutomu Tsuchikawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/tsutomu-tsuchikawa)
- **Director of Photography:** [Tokushō Kikumura](https://cinepixo.com/people/tokusho-kikumura)
- **Editor:** [Kan Suzuki](https://cinepixo.com/people/kan-suzuki)

## Cast

- [Kōji Yakusho](https://cinepixo.com/people/koji-yakusho) as Kenichi Takabe
- [Masato Hagiwara](https://cinepixo.com/people/masato-hagiwara) as Kunio Mamiya
- [Anna Nakagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-nakagawa) as Fumie Takabe
- [Ren Ōsugi](https://cinepixo.com/people/ren-osugi) as Fujiwara
- [Yukijirō Hotaru](https://cinepixo.com/people/yukijiro-hotaru) as Ichiro Kuwano
- [Denden](https://cinepixo.com/people/denden) as Oida
- [Tsuyoshi Ujiki](https://cinepixo.com/people/tsuyoshi-ujiki) as Makoto Sakuma
- [Yoriko Dōguchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoriko-doguchi) as Akiko Miyajima
- [Masahiro Toda](https://cinepixo.com/people/masahiro-toda) as Tôru Hanaoka

## Criticism on CinePixo

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/cure-1997
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