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
2026
- The Samurai and the Prisoner ... (Director)
2025
- The Ozu Diaries as Self
2024
- Horror's Greatest as Self - Director, Cure
- Cloud ... (Director)
- Chime ... (Director)
- Serpent's Path ... (Director)
- Les Cuisiniers of Chime as Self
2023
2022
- Modern Love Tokyo ... (Writer)
- Actually... ... (Director)
- No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation as Self
2020
- Wife of a Spy ... (Director)
2019
- To the Ends of the Earth ... (Director)
2017
- Before We Vanish ... (Director)
- Foreboding: Serial Version ... (Director)
- Foreboding ... (Teleplay)
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits as Himself
- Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images as Himself
- Terror from the Internet as Self
2016
- Creepy ... (Director)
- Daguerrotype ... (Director)
2015
- Journey to the Shore ... (Director)
- Hitchcock/Truffaut as Self
- Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2014
- Mr. X as Self
- Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema as Self
- Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
- Seventh Code ... (Director)
2013
- Beautiful New Bay Area Project ... (Director)
- Penance ... (Director)
- Real ... (Director)
- Beautiful 2013 ... (Director)
2012
- Penance ... (Writer)
- Wordholic Prisoner ... (Director)
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)
- Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku' as self
- Loft ... (Director)
- Masters of Killing
- What's a Director?
2005
- Reincarnation as Professor Kawashima
- Time Slip ... (Director)
- Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs ... (Director)
2004
- Leçon de Cinéma as Self
- Séance ... (Director)
- Pink Ribbon as Self
- Ghost Cop ... (Director)
- Soul Dancing ... (Director)
2003
- Doppelgänger ... (Director)
- Bright Future ... (Director)
- The Detective Who Can Say No
- Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Himself
- 3 on 3
- Deka Matsuri
- Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp ... (Director)
- 突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
2002
- Ju-on: The Grudge ... (Creative Consultant)
2001
- Pulse as Man in Internet (uncredited)
- School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special ... (Director)
- Gore from Outer Space
- Hanako San ... (Director)
1999
- Charisma ... (Director)
- License to Live ... (Director)
- Barren Illusion ... (Director)
- Making Of Charisma as Self
1998
- Serpent's Path ... (Director)
- Eyes of the Spider ... (Director)
- School Ghost Story G ... (Director)
- Kodama ... (Director)
1997
- Cure ... (Director)
- Wild Life
- The Revenge: A Visit from Fate ... (Director)
- The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears ... (Director)
- School Ghost Story F ... (Director)
1996
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble ... (Screenplay)
- Door III ... (Director)
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero ... (Director)
- A Haunted School as Photography professor
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot ... (Screenplay)
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche ... (Director)
1995
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist ... (Director)
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape ... (Director)
1994
- Yakuza Taxi ... (Director)
- Men of Rage ... (Director)
1992
- The Guard from Underground ... (Director)
- Whirlpool of Joy ... (Director)
1989
- Sweet Home ... (Director)
- Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home' as Self
- The Enchantment as Librarian
- Dangerous Stories ... (Director)
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)
- So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex ... (Writer)
- The Night Before the Escape ... (Director)
- LOSING THE WAY as Yakuza
1981
- Sailor Suit and Machine Gun ... (Assistant Director)
1980
- Vertigo College as Manager
- All Girls Are Twins
1979
- The Man Who Stole the Sun as Suspect on TV News
1978
- School Days ... (Director)
- SCHOOL SOUNDS
1977
- Fangs Crazy for White Skin as Narrator (voice)
- West Wind as Bazin
1976
- Record of Indefinite Travel ... (Director)
- The Flashing Signal ... (Director)
1975
- Teacher of Violence: Massacre in Broad Daylight ... (Director)
1973
- Rokkô ... (Director)