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Rating: 7.5 stars

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35mm Japan hypnotism doc films detective murder j-horror

All movies seen on 05/05/2019

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• Kinetic Visions: The Students of Hasumi Shigehiko

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Cure (1997)

Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Horror | Crime

Most recently watched by zombiefreak, danhnguyen, sensoria

Overview

A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere…

Rated NR | Length 111 minutes

Actors

Koji Yakusho | Masato Hagiwara | Tsuyoshi Ujiki | Anna Nakagawa | Yukijiro Hotaru | Yoriko Dôguchi | Denden | Ren Osugi | Masahiro Toda | Misayo Haruki | Shun Nakayama | Akira Otaka | Shôgo Suzuki | Toshi Kato | Hajime Tanimoto | Taro Suwa | Takeshi Mikami | Makoto Kakeda | Taijiro Tamura | Makoto Togashi

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

This screening was part of Kinetic Visions: The Students of Hasumi Shigehiko series by Doc Films at UChicago in Max Palevsky Cinema (Ida Noyes Hall). This was my second visit to Doc Films (my first visit was for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s PULSE). So it was pretty neat to see the second of Kurosawa’s more famous J-Horror flicks on the big screen in 35mm.

It had been so long since I’ve seen this that I forgot a lot of it. There are some scenes / moments that recalled but overall it was almost like watching this for the first time, which made for a very nice viewing in theater. There’s plenty of interesting things going on here. It’s so subtle and yet so clever with the story. I’d be down for getting the Eureka! blu-ray of this.

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