Dread and unease ooze in abundance in this masterful, bar-raising existential psychological mystery about an exasperated detective trying to solve a series of inexplicable murders. Part serial killer investigative procedural, part philosophical meditation, Cure is a maddeningly creepy existential delight that will stick with you.  A detective (an exasperated Koji Yakusho in top form) tries to solve a series of inexplicable random murders where victims are marked by an ‘X’.  As he goes deeper into these cases, he encounters a  young amnesiac (an unsettling Masato Hagiwara) who may be the key to everything. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s masterful staging of mise-en-scene and sound design presents us with a world which catches us off-balance where the ordinary can seem threatening and indeterminate at any time. In Japanese with English subtitles.