Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Hypnotic Cure Getting A 4K Blu-Ray Release

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s mesmerising and hypnotic psychological thriller Cure is set for a 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray release. Coming in January and for first time ever in UK, as part of The Masters of Cinema Series.

The film was originally released by Eureka Entertainment back in 2018. A landmark in the history of Japanese cinema, Cure was the breakthrough film for the director. Kurosawa would go on to make several further great films many consider ‘masterpiece’ in Pulse, Creepy and Tokyo Sonata. Released to critical acclaim in both the East and the West, this nerve-shredding thriller charts the hunt for a depraved serial killer in a bleak and decaying Tokyo.

A series of murders have been committed by ordinary people who claim to have had no control over their actions, many of them having killed friends, co-workers or even their spouse. There are only two links between each crime: an X carved into the neck of each victim, and a mysterious stranger who seems to have had brief with the perpetrator a short period of time before each killing. But to follow these leads and end a seemingly inexplicable wave of terror, police detective Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho, 13 Assassins) will need to put his own sanity on the line and endure a descent into hell.

Described as one of the greatest films of all time by Bong Joon-ho, the filmmaker behind Memories of Murder, The Host, Snowpiercer and Parasite, Cure is a cerebral and deeply unsettling hybrid of police procedural, serial killer film and horror movie to stand with The Silence of the Lambs and Se7en.

“Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s hypnotic trip into the lower depths of the human mind” – Variety
LIMITED EDITION 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:
Limited edition of 2000 copies | Limited edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Time Tomorrow | 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation from a 4K digital restoration, presented in Dolby Vision HDR | Uncompressed original Japanese stereo soundtrack | Optional English Subtitles | Two archival interviews with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa from 2003 and 2018 | Kim Newman on Cure – Interview with critic and author Kim Newman | Trailers | PLUS: Limited edition collector’s booklet featuring essays on Cure by Tom Mes

CURE [Kyua], the Masters of Cinema Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray will be available from 27th January 2025, Pre-order/Buy your copy at Eureka Store.