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 horrifying actions. Following the only link - a mysterious stranger who had brief contact with each perpetrator and their victim - detective Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho) places his own sanity on the line as he tries to end the wave of inexplicable terror.
- 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
- 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:
- B
- Bonus:
- Two archival interviews with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa from 2003 and 2018
- Kim Newman on Cure - Interview with critic and author Kim Newman
- Trailers
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Reviews (1) of Cure
Stylish but limited - Cure review by TE
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.