Name
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1955-07-19 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Kobe, Japan
Biography
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (黒沢 清, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, born July 19, 1955; Kobe) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic, actor, and professor at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Noted for his psychological films that often focus on ambiguous narratives and on their characters' inner turmoils and quests for meaning and connections, he is best known for his contributions to psychological horror and Japanese horror, notably his acclaimed 1997 film Cure, although he has also worked in a variety of other genres.
Known For
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When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have mov...
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The winds of change blow as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and ...
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A mysterious woman teams up with a man whose daughter was killed and who is now seeking re...
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While inspecting a wharf, young Amano, president of an urban planning company, meets beaut...
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With the help of a mysterious acquaintance, a former low-level yakuza tracks down and kidn...
- 2006 What's a Director?
- 2003 3 on 3
- 1984 The Funeral as Assistant Director
- 2003 Deka Matsuri
- 2018 The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
- 1991 Mikadroid as Military Police Officer A
- 2023 The J-Horror Virus
- 2023 Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts as Himself
- 1979 The Man Who Stole the Sun as Suspect on TV News
- 2001 Gore from Outer Space
- 1989 Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home' as Self
- 2014 Mr. X as Self
- 1989 The Enchantment as Librarian
- 2001 Pulse as Man in Internet (uncredited)
- 2015 Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
- 2015 Hitchcock/Truffaut as Self
- 2014 Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema as Self
- 1978 SCHOOL SOUNDS
- 1977 West Wind as Bazin
- 1980 All Girls Are Twins
- 2003 Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Himself
- 1982 LOSING THE WAY as Yakuza
- 2011 Japanese Cinema: New Territories as Self
- 2007 Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows as Self
- 2024 Les Cuisiniers of Chime as Self
- 2005 Reincarnation as Professor Kawashima
- 1996 A Haunted School as Photography professor
- 2009 Occult as Self
- 2017 Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits as Himself
- 2017 Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images as Himself
- 2004 Pink Ribbon as Self
- 2014 Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
- 2018 Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images as Self
- 2006 Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku' as self
- 1985 The Legend of the Stardust Brothers as Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
- 1980 Vertigo College as Manager
- 1977 Fangs Crazy for White Skin as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 Terror from the Internet as Self
- 2010 女優霊の原点・幻のフィルム 『シェラデコブレの幽霊』を探して as 自己
- 2023 Breakfast of the Movie
- 1991 Stranger as Passenger with flowers
- 1997 Wild Life
- 2025 The Ozu Diaries as Self
- 2022 No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation as Self
- 2003 The Detective Who Can Say No
- 2006 Masters of Killing
- 2003 突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
- 1987 Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito
- Soon Making of Charisma
- 1999 Making Of Charisma as Self
- 2004 Leçon de Cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2024 Horror's Greatest ( 1 episode ) as Self - Director, Cure
