US DVD edition

Psychological Art Horror Masterpiece and by many considered to be Kurosawa's
best movie where a crime cop is investigating a series of seemingly unexplainable
murders. A young man, an ex-student of psychology, is treated for amnesia and
is suspected to be the killer. A brilliant film with fascinating desolate settings and
with a fine industrial soundtrack, and who atmosphere-like resembles his other
art-horror masterpiece, the 2001 "Pulse" (Kairo).

Kiyoshi Kurosawa was one of my favourite Japanese directors, together with
Shunji Iwai and Takashi Miike, and his films made in the late 1990's and early
2000's were all exciting and uniquely his, and he had a cult film crowd praising
him, BUT, after his Tokyo Sonata artmovie in 2008 (a film i liked very much) i
think his style has changed more into the one western film-critics and Festival
crowds may like and many of his films are not that good anymore.
But he's extremely productive so i have alot of films to see and maybe some of
them are as good as his older one's.

I haven't seen his early films but from 1997 to 2003 he just couldn't miss, every
film was Gold. 1997 "Cure", the enigmatic and fascinating 1999 "Charisma",
2000 "Séance", 2001 "Pulse", 2003 "Bright Future" and "Doppelganger", then
followed a couple of OK J-Horrors before 2008 "Tokyo Sonata".

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa's mästerverk Cure (hade X som alternativ titel på Hong Kong VCD'n). Har hört rykten om att denna film faktiskt varit utgiven i Sverige på
1990-talet på en VHS !? Men ändå verkar den inte finnas utgiven i Europa/Sverige på DVD än av någon anledning

En man mördar en prostituerad utan att sen vare sig minnas eller kunna ge en anledning till dådet och polisen Takabe (Kurosawa's favoritaktör, Koji Yakusho)
utreder en serie liknande mord där ett X ristats in i offrens kroppar. Mordfall där ingen koppling tycks finnas mellan gärningsman och offer. Men snart tilldrar sig
en ung före detta psykologistudent med minnesförlust, Kunihiko Mamiya (Tsuyoshi Ujiki), polisens intresse och Takabe som är hårt pressad i sitt privatliv med en
vårdkrävande sinnessjuk fru, hamnar snabbt i ett mentalt underläge gentemot Mamiya.

Detta är en fullkomligt lysande psykologisk art horror thriller som i sina fascinerande bleka miljöer och industriella soundtrack förebådar likaledes mästerliga Kairo.
anamorfisk widescreen 1.85:1, stereo 2.0 och 19 min intervju med Kiyoshi Kurosawa + trailer som extramaterial. En finfin men dyr US utgåva värd varje krona



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