Eureka Entertainment is to release Cure (1997), the mesmerising and hypnotic psychological thriller from writer-director Kurosawa Kiyoshi. The film will be presentedon 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray for the first time ever in UK, as part of The Masters of Cinema Series, in January 2025 in a Limited edition of 2000 copies exclusively featuring an O-card slipcase & collector’s booklet.

A landmark in the history of Japanese cinema, Cure was the breakthrough film for writer-director Kurosawa Kiyoshi, who would go on to make several further modern masterpieces 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 contact 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. Having given the film its UK Blu-ray premiere in 2018, the Masters of Cinema series now presents the film on 4K UHD.

Described by Slarek in his Blu-ray review for this site as "one of the most compellingly and uniquely haunting films of late 20th century cinema," Cure will be released on UK UHD by Eureka Entertainment on 27 January 2025 at the RRP of £29.99.

4K UHD 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
• Limited edition collector’s booklet featuring essays on Cure by Tom Mes