DOUBLE FEATURE! Creepy Kiyoshi Kurosawa occult thrillers.

CURE follows a string of shocking, seemingly unmotivated murders that are each committed by a different person, yet all bearing the same grisly hallmarks. Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho – Perfect Days) has been tasked with uncovering who’s behind the gruesome crimes, but he grows increasingly frustrated as nothing seems to connect the murders. As he digs further, Takabe finds himself in a labyrinthine game of cat and mouse, as an enigmatic amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) leads him on a hallucinatory journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind.

PULSE explores 21st century loneliness and technological malaise as a group of friends in Tokyo start experiencing strange phenomena, including the mass disappearance of coworkers and a ghostly presence emanating from the internet. Three seemingly disconnected people, Michi (Kumiko Asô), Ryosuke (Haruhiko Katô), and Harue (Koyuki), attempt to solve the mystery behind the visions that are seeping beyond their computer monitors.

Japanese language, English subtitles.