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Released
1997 · FILM

Cure

A determined detective races to halt a string of brutal killings, only to discover each killer is a blank‑slated pawn manipulated by an enigmatic figure whose influence threatens to erase the line between guilt and innocence.

“Madness. Terror. Murder.”

Directed by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Written by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Rated
MPA · NR
Runtime
111 min
Language
JA
CrimeHorrorMystery
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

A frustrated detective investigates a series of gruesome murders committed by individuals who have no memory of the crimes they have committed.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 30

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Kan SuzukiShot by Tokusho KikumuraScored by Gary AshiyaDesigned by Tomoyuki Maruo

Box Office

1997 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 12× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$235K

Budget$20K
Worldwide gross$235K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Curede
  • Cureen

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