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Cure

1997 · Mystery · Kiyoshi Kurosawa · 1h 47m

A Tokyo detective works a run of identical murders committed by unconnected people who cannot say why they did it. Very slow, very quiet, and it gets right under you.

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  • Clearly complicated

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