The Paramount Theatre
Saturday, August 17, 2024

Doors: 6:30pm
Film: 7:30pm

1997 | 111 min. | Color | DCP
Directed by: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Masato Hagiwara, Koji Yakusho and Tsuyoshi Ujiki

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s spellbinding international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of the emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration. A string of shocking, seemingly unmotivated murders—each committed by a different person yet bearing the same grisly hallmarks—leads Detective Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho) into a labyrinthine investigation to discover what connects them, and into a disturbing game of cat and mouse with an enigmatic amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) who may be evil incarnate. Awash in a mood of hushed, hypnotic dread, Cure is a tour de force of psychological tension and a hallucinatory journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind.

-Stephen Jannise