Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Born: 1955-07-19 in Kobe, Japan
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2025
- The Ozu Diaries as Self
2024
- Serpent's Path ... (Director)
- Cloud ... (Director)
- Chime ... (Director)
- Les Cuisiniers of Chime as Self
- Horror's Greatest as Self - Director, Cure
2023
2022
- Actually... ... (Director)
- Modern Love Tokyo ... (Writer)
2020
- Wife of a Spy ... (Director)
- No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation as Self
2019
- To the Ends of the Earth ... (Director)
2017
- Before We Vanish ... (Director)
- Foreboding ... (Teleplay)
- Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images as Himself
- Foreboding: Serial Version ... (Director)
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits as Himself
- Terror from the Internet as Self
2016
- Creepy ... (Director)
- Daguerrotype ... (Director)
2015
- Hitchcock/Truffaut as Self
- Journey to the Shore ... (Director)
- Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2014
- Mr. X as Self
- Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
- Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema as Self
2013
- Seventh Code ... (Director)
- Penance ... (Director)
- Real ... (Director)
- Beautiful New Bay Area Project ... (Director)
- Beautiful 2013 ... (Director)
2012
- Wordholic Prisoner ... (Director)
- Penance ... (Writer)
2011
- Japanese Cinema: New Territories as Self
2010
2009
- Occult as Self
2008
- Tokyo Sonata ... (Director)
2007
- Retribution ... (Director)
- Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows as Self
2006
- Pulse ... (Original Film Writer)
- Loft ... (Director)
- What's a Director?
- 殺しのはらわた
- Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku' as self
2005
- Reincarnation as Professor Kawashima
- Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs ... (Director)
- Time Slip ... (Director)
2004
- Pink Ribbon as Self
- Ghost Cop ... (Director)
- Leçon de Cinéma as Self
- Soul Dancing ... (Director)
2003
- Bright Future ... (Director)
- Doppelganger ... (Director)
- Deka Matsuri
- 3 on 3
- Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Himself
- The Detective Who Can Say No
- 突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
- Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp ... (Director)
2002
- Ju-on: The Grudge ... (Creative Consultant)
2001
- Pulse as Man in Internet (uncredited)
- Gore from Outer Space
- School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special ... (Director)
- Hanako San ... (Director)
2000
- Séance ... (Director)
1999
- License to Live ... (Director)
- Charisma ... (Director)
- Barren Illusion ... (Director)
1998
- Serpent's Path ... (Director)
- School Ghost Story G ... (Director)
- Eyes of the Spider ... (Director)
- Kodama ... (Director)
1997
- The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears ... (Director)
- Cure ... (Director)
- The Revenge: A Visit from Fate ... (Director)
- Wild Life
- School Ghost Story F ... (Director)
1996
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! III: The Loot ... (Screenplay)
- A Haunted School
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! IV: The Gamble ... (Screenplay)
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! V: The Nouveau Riche ... (Director)
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! VI: The Hero ... (Director)
- Door III ... (Director)
1995
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! I: The Heist ... (Director)
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! II: The Escape ... (Director)
1994
- Yakuza Taxi ... (Director)
- Men of Rage ... (Director)
1992
- The Guard from Underground ... (Director)
- Whirlpool of Joy ... (Director)
1991
- Stranger as Passenger with flowers
- Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla as Military Police Officer A
1989
- Sweet Home ... (Director)
- Dangerous Stories ... (Director)
- The Enchantment as Librarian
- Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home' as Self
1985
- Bumpkin Soup ... (Director)
- The Legend of the Stardust Brothers as Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
- Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita ... (Director)
1984
- The Funeral as Assistant Director
1983
- Kandagawa Pervert Wars ... (Director)
- The New Seven Lines Between Things ... (Director)
1982
- Wolf: Running Is Sex ... (Production Assistant)
- LOSING THE WAY as Yakuza
- The Night Before the Escape ... (Director)
- So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex ... (Writer)
1981
- Sailor Suit and Machine Gun ... (Assistant Director)
1980
- All Girls Are Twins
- Vertigo College as Manager
1979
- The Man Who Stole the Sun as Suspect on TV News
1978
- SCHOOL SOUNDS
- School Days ... (Director)
1977
- West Wind as Bazin
- Fangs Crazy for White Skin as Narrator (voice)
1976
- The Flashing Signal ... (Director)
- Record of Indefinite Travel ... (Director)
1975
- Teacher of Violence: Massacre in Broad Daylight ... (Director)
1973
- Rokkô ... (Director)