Original title: Kyua / Kyua
Year: 1997
Country: Japan
Region code: A/B/C
Content: 4K UHD
EAN: 5060000705577
Image: 1.85:1 (2160p)
Audio: Japanese - Uncompressed Stereo
Subtitles: English
Rating: 15
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Synopsis:
A landmark in the history of Japanese cinema, Cure was the breakthrough film for director Kiyoshi Kurosawa , who would go on to make several further modern masterpieces in Pulse , Creepy and Tokyo Sonata . Released to critical acclaim in both the East and the West, this nerve-shredding thriller charts the hunt for a depraved serial killer in a bleak and decaying Tokyo.
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 , 13 Assassins ) will need to put his own sanity on the line and toughen a descent into hell.
Described as one of the greatest films of all time by Bong Joon-ho, the filmmaker behind Memories of Murder , The Host , Snowpiercer and Parasite , Cure is a cerebral and deeply unsettling hybrid of police procedural, serial killer film and horror movie to stand with The Silence of the Lambs and Seven . Having given the film its UK Blu-ray premiere in 2018, the Masters of Cinema series is now proud to present the film on 4K UHD.
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