A bizarre serial murder occurs in the Tokyo area. What they have in common is that the corpse has an X engraved on its neck. But it wasn't something one person did. Criminals go about their normal lives and suddenly commit murder as if possessed by something. Detective Takabe (Yakusho Koji) suspects that there is another suspect in the case. Suddenly, a person named Kunio Mamiya ( Hagiwara Masato ) appears as a suspect in a serial murder case. During the interrogation, Mamiya couldn't remember everything, including herself. Then she wakes up to find a lighter to smoke. Takabe reads his trick and picks up his coat and throws it away.

The masterpiece of director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who is also famous as the mentor of Ryusuke Hamaguchi , will be officially released in Korea as a 4K remastered version of the 1997 work Cure. The film is faithful to the genre of crime thriller, but at the same time, it is also a psychological drama that touches on the inner side of the main character. Therefore, as Detective Takabe pursues a suspect in a serial murder case, he is gradually sucked into his inner abyss. Mamiya, who controls Takabe's mind through hypnotism, is an empty being. Takabe tries to fill the empty space by finding a reason, and in the end faces catastrophe by montaging irrelevant images. As such, <Cure> is a film that deals with the realm of the mind rather than the realm of logic to find the reason. To this end, the film put a lot of effort into sound design. Overall, the use of music is moderated and sounds from real places are actively used. It is characterized by making everyday noises such as dripping water and wind sound unfamiliar. With the addition of a strange roaring sound, the film amplifies anxiety and brings the audience into Takabe's complicated mind before he knows it.

Here, let's pay attention to Kiyoshi Kurosawa's signature car that looks like walking on clouds. When you light the car and the next shot connects, you can tell it has physically moved. However, director Kurosawa creates a strange impression even in that short moment. He composes the shot in a way that separates the person in the car from the background by making the outside of the window opaque so that it is impossible to know where he is heading and elicits a new level of affect. In particular, in the bus scene where Takabe and her wife move somewhere, clouds are visible, which creates a feeling of floating rather than moving on the ground, separated from the space-time coordinates. The same shot composition also appears in the recent film , The Spy's Wife . Not only this, but many of these strange cars appear throughout his filmography, so it would be interesting to compare them.

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