Kiyoshi Kurosawa	...	(Director)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Kurosawa	...	(Writer)
Kôji Yakusho	...	Kenichi Takabe
Tsuyoshi Ujiki	...	Makoto Sakuma
Masato Hagiwara	...	Kunio Mamiya
Anna Nakagawa	...	Fumie Takabe
Yukijiro Hotaru	...	Ichiro Kuwano
Yoriko Douguchi	...	Dr. Akiko Miyajima
Denden	...	Oida
Ren Osugi	...	Fujiwara
Masahiro Toda	...	Tôru Hanaoka
Misayo Haruki	...	Tomoko Hanaoka
Shun Nakayama	...	Kimura
Akira Otaka	...	Yasukawa
Shogo Suzuki	...	Tamura
Toshi Kato	...	Psychiatrist
Hajime Tanimoto	...	Takabe no shachô
Yoriko Dôguchi	...	Dr. Akiko Miyajima
Yukijirô Hotaru	...	Ichiro Kuwano
Ren Ohsugi	...	Fujiwara
Shôgo Suzuki	...	Tamura
Tokushô Kikumura	...	Cinematographer

Comments: The Power Of Suggestion.

Summary: In the hands of director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a serial-killer movie is not merely a serial-killer movie. Cure doesn't so much scream and shout as drive the audience slowly crazy--much like Kurosawa's subsequent creepfests, Seance and Pulse (a.k.a. Kairo). Koji Yakusho, the happy-foot husband in Shall We Dance, plays a weary detective on a baffling murder case, which paradoxically becomes even more puzzling as the solution begins to emerge. Kurosawa's use of empty spaces, and his uncanny command of the soundtrack (the eerie collection of hums and drones would win David Lynch's approval) makes for a shivery experience... though not one interested in resolving itself in a conventional manner. And why should it? At some terrible point in this movie you realize that catching the bad guy isn't going to make Kurosawa's poisoned world any cleaner or safer. Stick with the director's elliptical style, and Cure will leave dread in its tainted wake. --Robert Horton