Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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.
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Movies (46)
The Ozu Diaries
as Self
2025
Cloud
Screenplay (Writing)
2024
Chime
Director (Directing)
2024
Les Cuisiniers of Chime
as Self
2024
Serpent's Path
Director (Directing)
2024
Breakfast of the Movie
2023
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
as Himself
2023
The J-Horror Virus
2023
Actually...
Director (Directing)
2022
Wife of a Spy
Director (Directing)
2020
No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation
as Self
2020
To the Ends of the Earth
Writer (Writing)
2019
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images
as Self
2018
The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
2018
Foreboding
Teleplay (Writing)
2017
Before We Vanish
Director (Directing)
2017
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits
as Himself
2017
Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images
as Himself
2017
Terror from the Internet
as Self
2017
Daguerrotype
Director (Directing)
2016
Creepy
Director (Directing)
2016
Journey to the Shore
Director (Directing)
2015
Hitchcock/Truffaut
as Self
2015
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2015
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
as Self
2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
as Self
2014
Mr. X
as Self
2014
Seventh Code
Director (Directing)
2013
Real
Screenplay (Writing)
2013
Penance
Director (Directing)
2013
Beautiful New Bay Area Project
Director (Directing)
2013
Beautiful 2013
Director (Directing)
2013
Wordholic Prisoner
Director (Directing)
2012
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
as Self
2011
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
2010
Occult
as Self
2009
Tokyo Sonata
Director (Directing)
2008
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
as Self
2007
Retribution
Director (Directing)
2007
殺しのはらわた
2006
What's a Director?
2006
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
as self
2006
Loft
Screenplay (Writing)
2006
Pulse
Original Film Writer (Writing)
2006
Reincarnation
as Professor Kawashima
2005
Time Slip
Director (Directing)
2005
