Cure

Our Cinema Studies Seminars offer an engaging in-theater experience where professors explore a film of their choosing more in depth. All Seminar Ticket Holders will receive an introductory lecture before the film and a guided discussion after the film. In addition, Seminar Ticket Holders receive ONE complimentary small popcorn and a drink.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s international breakthrough established him as a premiere filmmaker in the emerging new wave of Japanese horror. CURE is a psychologically intense and spellbinding mystery that grabs you from the first frame and won’t let go. A detective investigates a string of grisly, yet unrelated murders that bear similarities, which puts him into a cat and mouse game with an enigmatic young man. In Japanese w/ subtitles.

For Cinema Studies ticket holders – NOTE that the Intro Lecture begins at 7:00 with the film beginning at 7:30.

Seminar Ticketing (which includes the Lecture, Film and Discussion) is $40 General; $30 Member; $35 Senior, Student or PU Staff/Faculty.

Please note: the screening associated with this Seminar will be open to the public, as well. Only Seminar Ticket Holders will have access to the lecture and discussion.

Steven Chung is associate professor in the East Asian Studies department, associate faculty in Comparative Literature, and on the Executive Committee for Film Studies. His research and teaching interests range widely: from Korean and East Asian film and media to global histories of political and religious conversion to traditions in film theory and critical theory. His first book, Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema, published in 2014 and winner of that year’s Association for Asian Studies Prize for Best Book in Korean Studies, explored the aesthetic and political terrain of the postcolonial and postwar Korean peninsula through the work of filmmaker Shin Sang-ok. His current research tracks the circulation and reconfiguration of audiovisual technologies throughout the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia.

Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Masato Hagiwara, Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki

Country Japan

Language Japanese (with subtitles)

Aspect 1.85

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