Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Directing
Born: July 19, 1955 (age 71) · Kobe, Japan
Highest Rated
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
Ju-on: The Grudge
2002
Cure
1997
Pulse
2001
Pulse
2006
Tokyo Sonata
2008
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
Creepy
2016
Reincarnation
2005
Cloud
2024
Retribution
2007
Wife of a Spy
2020
Before We Vanish
2017
Photos (8)
Movies (28)
Pulse
Man in Internet (uncredited)
The Man Who Stole the Sun
Suspect on TV News
Reincarnation
Professor Kawashima
Wild Life
1997
Stranger
Passenger with flowers
The Funeral
Assistant Director
The J-Horror Virus
2023
Mikadroid
Military Police Officer A
3 on 3
2003
Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito
1987
A Haunted School
Photography professor
The Enchantment
Librarian
The Detective Who Can Say No
2003
The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
2018
Gore from Outer Space
2001
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
Breakfast of the Movie
2023
Deka Matsuri
2003
What's a Director?
2006
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2015
Masters of Killing
2006
SCHOOL SOUNDS
1978
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
自己
All Girls Are Twins
1980
West Wind
Bazin
Vertigo College
Manager
LOSING THE WAY
Yakuza
突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
2003
Self / Appearances (22)
Leçon de Cinéma
Self · 1 eps
Horror's Greatest
Self - Director, Cure · 1 eps
Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
Self
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Self
Mr. X
Self
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
Himself
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
Self
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits
Self
Occult
Self
The Ozu Diaries
Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Self
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Self
Pink Ribbon
Self
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
self
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Himself
No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation
Self
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images
Self
Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images
Himself
Les Cuisiniers of Chime
Self
Terror from the Internet
Self
Making Of Charisma
Self
Upcoming (1)
Directing (68)
Cure
Director
Pulse
Director
Modern Love Tokyo
Director
Penance
Director
Cloud
Director
The Samurai and the Prisoner
Director
Creepy
Director
Tokyo Sonata
Director
Chime
Director
The Man Who Stole the Sun
Assistant Director
Wife of a Spy
Director
Eyes of the Spider
Director
Before We Vanish
Director
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Assistant Director
Serpent's Path
Director
Serpent's Path
Director
To the Ends of the Earth
Director
Daguerrotype
Director
Charisma
Director
Door III
Director
Kandagawa Pervert Wars
Director
License to Live
Director
Retribution
Director
Journey to the Shore
Director
Bright Future
Director
Séance
Director
Bumpkin Soup
Director
Sweet Home
Director
Real
Director
The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
Director
Loft
Director
Foreboding: Serial Version
Director
Doppelgänger
Director
Yakuza Taxi
Director
Penance
Director
Henri Langlois vu par...
Director
Seventh Code
Director
Barren Illusion
Director
The Guard from Underground
Director
Beautiful New Bay Area Project
Director
Foreboding
Director
School Ghost Story G
Director
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble
Director
Wordholic Prisoner
Director
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
Director
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Director
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero
Director
Actually...
Director
School Days
Director
Beautiful 2013
Director
The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
Director
School Ghost Story F
Director
School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special
Director
Time Slip
Director
Hanako San
Director
Deka Matsuri
Director
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot
Director
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
Director
Kodama
Director
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche
Director
Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp
Director
Men of Rage
Director
The New Seven Lines Between Things
Director
Soul Dancing
Director
Rokkô
Director
Whirlpool of Joy
Director
Vertigo College
Director
The Night Before the Escape
Director
Writing (45)
Cure
Screenplay
Pulse
Writer
Modern Love Tokyo
Writer
Pulse
Original Film Writer
Penance
Writer
Cloud
Screenplay
The Samurai and the Prisoner
Screenplay
Creepy
Screenplay
Tokyo Sonata
Writer
Chime
Screenplay
Wife of a Spy
Screenplay
Eyes of the Spider
Screenplay
Before We Vanish
Screenplay
Serpent's Path
Writer
To the Ends of the Earth
Writer
Daguerrotype
Scenario Writer
Charisma
Screenplay
License to Live
Screenplay
Retribution
Screenplay
Journey to the Shore
Screenplay
Bright Future
Writer
Séance
Teleplay
Bumpkin Soup
Writer
Sweet Home
Writer
Real
Screenplay
Loft
Screenplay
Foreboding: Serial Version
Teleplay
Doppelgänger
Screenplay
Yakuza Taxi
Screenplay
Penance
Screenplay
Seventh Code
Writer
Barren Illusion
Screenplay
So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex
Writer
The Guard from Underground
Screenplay
Beautiful New Bay Area Project
Screenplay
Foreboding
Teleplay
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble
Screenplay
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Writer
The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
Screenplay
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot
Screenplay
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
Screenplay
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche
Screenplay
Men of Rage
Writer
Soul Dancing
Writer
Whirlpool of Joy
Writer
