# Cure - Paperback

by **Dominic Lash** (Author)

**Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 psychological horror, _Cure_, follows a detective (played by Koji Yakusho) as he investigates a string of gruesome murders in Tokyo, where each victim has an 'X' carved into their neck.**

Dominic Lash provides an in-depth analysis of _Cure'_s themes, generic conventions, cinematography, editing, mise-en-scène, sound, and legacy. In examining the film's aesthetics he highlights the unique way in which it balances meticulous precision with a persistent and purposeful ambiguity. Lash goes on to situate _Cure_ within its various contexts; firstly, as Kurosawa's 'breakthrough' film following a decade of mostly straight-to-video work and then its position in relation to the J-Horror boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Through a close reading of _Cure_'s key scenes, particularly its final scene, Lash analyses the motivations behind Kurosawa's resistance to a definitive resolution. He argues that, just like its hypnotist antagonist, Mamiya, _Cure_ unsettles some of our basic psychological assumptions. In doing so, he attempts to understand what it is about the film that lingers so disturbingly, long after the credits have rolled.

### Author Biography

**Dominic Lash** is Postdoctoral Affiliate at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of _The Cinema of Disorientation: Inviting Confusions_ (2020) and _Robert Pippin and Film: Politics, Psychology, and Ethics after Modernism_ (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). His work has been published in journals such as Screen, Cinergie and Movie.

**Number of Pages:** 104

**Dimensions:** 1 x 7.48 x 5.32 IN

**Publication Date:** October 03, 2024

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