Cure (1997): Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Hypnotist and the Empty Detective

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A series of murders in Tokyo. Each victim has the same wound, a large X cut into the throat and chest. Each killer is a different, ordinary person — a policeman, a doctor, a schoolteacher — caught at the scene, fully confessing, utterly unable to say why they did it. That is the engine of Cure, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 1997 breakthrough, and it is worth stating up front that the film has no interest in the thing every other serial-killer picture is built to deliver: the reveal, the profile, the click of a motive locking into place. Kurosawa withholds all of it, and the withholding is the horror.

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Cure (1997): Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Hypnotist and the Empty Detective