To mark the publication of its new issue devoted to the cinema of the 1990s, 24 images magazine presents Nanni Moretti's Journal intime and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure. Two films that each testify in their own way, from the personal essay to the psychological horror, to the evolution of auteur cinema and the desire for introspection of this decade.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s spellbinding international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of the emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration. A string of shocking, seemingly unmotivated murders—each committed by a different person yet bearing the same grisly hallmarks—leads Detective Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho) into a labyrinthine investigation to discover what connects them, and into a disturbing game of cat and mouse with an enigmatic amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) who may be evil incarnate. Awash in a mood of hushed, hypnotic dread, Cure is a tour de force of psychological tension and a hallucinatory journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Born in 1955 in Kobe, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a former professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Although he worked in a variety of genres, Kurosawa is best known for his contributions to psychological and Japanese horror. He studied at Rikkyo University in Tokyo under the guidance of prominent film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, where he began making 8mm films. Kurosawa began directing commercially in the 1980s, working on pink films and low-budget V-Cinema (direct-to-video) productions such as formula yakuza films. In 1983, he released his first feature film Kandagawa Pervert Wars, and became popular after The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (1985) and The Guard from Underground (1992). He first achieved international acclaim with his 1997 crime thriller film Cure; his most celebrated work alongside Pulse (2001), for which he won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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