Rent Cure (1997)
3.7 of 5 from 129 ratings
1h 51min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- A series of murders have been committed by ordinary people who claim to have had no control over their actions, many of them having killed friends, co-workers or even their spouse. There are only two links between each crime: an X carved into the neck of each victim, and a mysterious stranger who seems to have had brief contact with the perpetrator a short period of time before each killing. But to follow these leads and end a seemingly inexplicable wave of terror, police detective Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho) will need to put his own sanity on the line and endure a descent into hell.
- Actors:
- Masato Hagiwara, Kôji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Yoriko Dôguchi, Yukijirô Hotaru, Denden, Ren Ôsugi, Masahiro Toda, Misayo Haruki, Shun Nakayama, Akira Ohtaka, Shôgo Suzuki, Toshi Kato, Hajime Tanimoto, Tsuyoshi Mikami, Makoto Kakeda, Yasujiro Tamura, Yasuharu Sato, Shinichiro Inoue
- Directors:
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Producers:
- Tetsuya Ikeda, Satoshi Kanno, Atsuyuki Shimoda, Tsutomu Tsuchikawa, Shigeo Masubuchi
- Writers:
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Aka:
- Kyua
- Studio:
- Eureka
- Genres:
- Horror, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 23/04/2018
- Run Time:
- 111 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- A new video interview with critic and author Kim Newman
- A new video interview with Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- An archival interview with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Original theatrical trailer
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 27/01/2025
- Run Time:
- 111 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese Dolby Digital Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Memories of Cure - new interview with director Bong Joon-ho
- Curating Cure - new video essay by Japanese cinema expert Tom Mes
- Archival interview with critic and author Kim Newman
- Two archival interviews with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa from 2003 and 2018
- Trailers and TV spot
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Reviews (1) of Cure
Stylish but limited - Cure review by CP Customer
What makes ordinary "good citizens" commit murder?
The answer here is provided by a mysterious drifter who claims to have amnesia and to be empty inside. His subtle hypnotic techniques are linked to his studies of Franz Mesmer.
A potentially interesting exploration of this link is promised, but it all ends in predictable fashion with no insights offered into the Mesmer connection.
1 out of 2 members found this review helpful.