Japan Synopsis
キュア
“Madness. Terror. Murder.”
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere…
Audience Engagement
390 audience reviews — more than 92% of Japan films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 80th percentile among Japan films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Cure. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Daiei Film
Crime + Thriller in Japan
92 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Crime and Thriller genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Cure itself).
The 1996–1998 Japan Window
Cure holds position #40 of 144 Japan films in the 1996–1998 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 1990s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1990s in Japan, 447 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Cure premiered alongside 38 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 51m runtime, production spent $180 per minute on screen and earned $891 per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 38 other Japan films in 1997.
The 1128th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Cure, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- mental hospital · 4
- interrogation · 2
- personality disorder · 1
- hypnotism · 1
- psychosis · 1
- record player · 1
- neo-noir · 17
- amnesia · 17
- hotel · 13
- hallucination · 11
- stranger · 10
- interview · 7
- japan · 454
- based on novel or book · 288
- murder · 155
- tokyo · 78
- investigation · 45
- serial killer · 42
- prostitute · 39
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,347 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (71st percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.5 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Crime productions specifically: #65 of 402 (top 16%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Daiei Film, Twins Japan |
| Runtime | 1h 51m |
| Release Date | December 27, 1997 |
| IMDb | tt0123948 |