Horror · Mystery · Crime
Japanese (キュア)
1997 · Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa · 111 min
A string of brutal killings shakes Tokyo. The perpetrators are ordinary people who are caught at once, cannot explain what they did, and have no link to one another. A weary detective follows the trail through empty rooms and washed-out streets, in a crime story that cares less about clues than about unease.
Why it matters in cinema history
A landmark of 1990s Japanese cinema that helped shape J-horror and the quiet, ambiguous psychological thriller, and the work that made Kurosawa a name abroad.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a film about attention: what the camera chooses not to show matters as much as what it does.
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