Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

Brilliant.:

Kyua (Kyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)

Veteran director Kyoshi Kurosawa (Serpent's Path, the recently-optioned Pulse) weighs in with this 1997 offering, and the best way to describe it is giallo gone Yakuza. It has all the highlights of good giallo, from an overly gory mystery storyline to broad cinematic shots in the best Argento style to characters who sometimes just say the silliest things imaginable to one particular plot twist that makes absolutely no sense to anyone until you've seen the movie fifty times.... more info

Thought Provoking Stuff:

I ran into Cure on the Independent Film Channel whilst laying in bed channel surfing one night, and was hooked. I purchased a crap copy off of ebay because I couldn't stand telling friends "you gotta see this movie that's... well... unavailable here in the US."
I'm so pleased to see that it's finally getting a proper stateside release (as opposed to being held up by a Hollywood hijacking a la Rungu/Ring), and I'll be grabbing my official copy immediately.

Cure is a flick that'll either bore the pants... more info

triumph of aesthetics; failure of substance:

It seems that all Japanese screenwriters have needed to do in the last 10-15 years to win the praise of 'artistiques' and commoners alike is ask "who am i?" Asking questions and not answering them, though, (especially when those questions are what elevate your film from gratuity to meaning) is a style of storytelling which I think should, for the most part, be avoided henceforth. If I hear "watashi/boku/ore wa... dare????" in a pleading tone one more time....

The premise of Cure is adequately intriguing.... more info

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