Cure (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Description

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s arresting international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of an 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 all bearing the same grisly hallmarks—leads Detective 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 hushed, hypnotic dread, Cure is a tour de force of psychological tension and a hallucinatory journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES4K digital restoration, supervised by cinematographer Tokusho Kikumura, with uncompressed stereo soundtrackNew conversation between director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and filmmaker Ryusuke HamaguchiInterviews with actors Masato Hagiwara and Koji YakushoInterview from 2003 with KurosawaTrailers and teaserPLUS: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara