Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s spellbinding international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of the emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration.

Martin Scorsese – “This is one of the best films by the extremely talented Kiyoshi Kurosawa. He’s an absolute master of light, framing and pacing, and has so much control over all three that there are moments in his movies when the slightest gesture in the corner of the frame will send a shiver down your spine.  Kurosawa doesn’t exactly work in the horror genre. Rather his films are filled with a strange dread. In many of them something has arrived, no one knows exactly what or how or for what purpose: reality is untouched except for a small unsettling detail or two which mutates into violence and irrationality. Kurosawa is a real student of cinema and has absorbed the lessons of older American cinema and taken them to interesting and unusual places.

The excellent Koji Yakusho is a detective confronted with a seemingly inexplicable phenomenon: a series of murders in which the perpetrators are standing by unaware of how or why they did it, with red X’s carved on the neck of the victims.”

The detective is forced into a labyrinthine investigation to discover what connects them. Awash in a mood of hushed, hypnotic dread, Cure is a tour de force of psychological tension and a hallucinatory journey into the human mind.