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Cure

Summary: A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Release Date: July 08, 2001

Genres: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Daiei Studios, Twins Japan

Distributor: Janus Films, The Criterion Channel

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Box office:

Budget:$1MWorldwide:$194.5K

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-9%

The Rotten Tomatoes audience rated this -9% lower than the critics.

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17% of the Stars & Main Cast are Female.

100% of the Stars & Main Cast are "diverse."

Asian100%

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Cure, 1997 - ★★★★

There are some pretty grisly images in Cure, a dark and idiosyncratic procedural in the vein of David Fincher’s Seven. It follows a cop investigating a growing number of slayings that closely...

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