Cure (film)

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Movie
German title Cure
Original title Kyua
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1997
length 111 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
script Kiyoshi Kurosawa
production Tetsuya Ikeda , Satoshi Kanno , Atsuyuki Shimoda , Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
music Gary Ashiya
camera Noriaki Kikumura
cut Kan Suzuki
occupation

Cure ( Japanese キ ュ ア , Kyua) is a Japanese horror film / psychological thriller directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa from 1997. Kiyoshi Kurosawa also wrote the screenplay. K. Kurosawa already shows in this film, which marked his international breakthrough and revolves around hypnosis and identity   , his preference for strict and static picture compositions. The film was released in the USA in 2001.

action

Tokyo of the "present": The policeman Kenichi Takabe , played by Kōji Yakusho , investigates in a strange series of murders: Although the victims were killed in a similar way, namely by cutting an X in the chest, there are apparently only different perpetrators in question .

Psychotic perpetrators are each caught near the scene of the crime, but although they confess their crimes, they appear to have had no motive. Finally, Takabe, burdened with worrying about his unstable wife, targets a man named Mamiya , who is very likely to be the link between the murders. Everyone he has ever had contact with seems to have become a criminal soon after.

Mamiya seems to be suffering from memory loss: he neither knows the day of the week nor his name, nor does he seem to understand who he is talking to.

Takabe and police psychologist Sakuma arrest Mamiya and discover that he studied hypnosis and engaged in mesmerism ; Takabe still cannot believe or understand that the apparently almost catatonic Mamiya could have induced others to do such things.

Takabe, however, becomes increasingly clear that Mamiya is simulating his condition, on the other hand Mamiya is fascinated by Takabe because he seems to be immune to his abilities. He demonstrates his ability to drive people crazy, as soon as he has a single monotonous noise or the flame of a lighter nearby. The more precisely Takabe investigates Mamiya, the more he realizes that he is risking his own mental health: Mamiya confronts his counterpart with his own fears, questions his or her identity and induces hallucinations .

When Mamiya escapes, Takabe follows him into a derelict factory building, where he shoots him. Takabe discovered a gramophone with sound recordings of unknown origin.

In the epilogue it is implied that Takabe Mamiya's abilities “inherited” and could possibly also exercise them.

Others

The film had its world premiere on November 6, 1997 at the Tokyo International Film Festival . It was first broadcast in the Federal Republic of Germany on November 10, 2003 on Arte . 

Reviews

  • "Psychological thriller that is not designed to build up superficial tension, but rather creates a latently exciting-threatening atmosphere that you can hardly avoid." - Lexicon of international film 
  • "In Tokyo, ordinary people run amok and don't know why [...] Sushi- style horror : raw, but sophisticated" - Cinema 
  • “Slowly, patiently and without any suspense-increasing antics, Kiyoshi Kurosawa intensifies the situation. [...] The film is very strong in that it allows the serial killer genre to mutate into a psychological study of the investigator without having to fall back on silent lambs . […] Finally, Takabe finds himself across the border ”- Ekkehard Knörer , Jump Cut 
  • “The killer, a slim, sensitive-looking young man, looks less like a person than an incarnation of the vague horror around him. He stumbles from place to place like a character from Beckett [...] Kurosawa [...] leaves the audience as confused as the police officers. ”- AO Scott, The New York Times 

David Luty points out that the postulate made in the film that a hypnotist would never contravene his moral convictions (see Hypnosis ) is apparently completely forgotten ( but that idea is never addressed again, except in the way the film constantly shows it to be incorrect. ) 

At Rotten Tomatoes , the film is out on 25 August 2008 with 42 reviews evaluated with 93 percent, Metacritic sees him on the same day at 70 percent with 13 reviews acknowledged. With the votes of 1,794 viewers, Cure is in the Internet Movie Database on August 25, 2008 at 7.4 out of 10 points.

Awards

Tokyo International Film Festival 1997

  • Best Actor Award for Kôji Yakusho

Yokohama Film Festival 1999

  • Festival Prize in the Best Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa category (pro rata)
  • Festival Prize in the Best Film category
  • Festival Prize in the Best Supporting Actor category for Ren Osugi (and for other films)

Blue Ribbon Awards 1998

  • Blue Ribbon Award in the Best Actor category for Kôji Yakusho (and for other films)

Hochi Film Awards 1997

  • Hochi Film Award in the Best Actor category for Kôji Yakusho (and for other films)

Japanese Professional Movie Awards 1998

  • Japanese Professional Movie Award in the Best Film category for Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  • Japanese Professional Movie Award in the Best Supporting Actor category for Masato Hagiwara

Mainichi Eiga Concours 1999

  • Prize in the Best Art Direction category for Tomoyuki Maruo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This article was based on August 25, 2008 in parts on a translation of the article Cure (film) of the English language Wikipedia from the same day. A list of the authors is available here .
  2. ↑ a b Hill, see web links.
  3. ↑ David Luty: "austere look".
  4. ^ Internet Movie Database .
  5. ↑ a b Cure. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 12, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ^ Cure. In: Cinema . Thomas Mende, cond., Accessed on August 25, 2008 .
  7. ^ Ekkehard Knörer : Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Cure (Japan 1997). In: Jump Cut . Retrieved August 25, 2008 .
  8. ^ AO Scott: Cure (1997). In: The New York Times . August 3, 2001, accessed on August 25, 2008 (English): "The killer, a slender, delicate-looking young man, seems less a person than the incarnation of the vague dread that surrounds him. He drifts from place to place like a figure out of Beckett, […] Kurosawa […] keeping the audience as confused as the police. "
  9. ↑ David Luty: Cure. In: Film Journal International. Retrieved August 25, 2008 .