Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Directing • Born 1955-07-19
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
51 credits
What's a Director?
Movie • 2006
3 on 3
Movie • 2003
The Funeral
Movie • 1984
Assistant Director
Deka Matsuri
Movie • 2003
The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Movie • 2018
Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
Movie • 1991
Military Police Officer A
The J-Horror Virus
Movie • 2023
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
Movie • 2023
Himself
The Man Who Stole the Sun
Movie • 1979
Suspect on TV News
Gore from Outer Space
Movie • 2001
Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
Movie • 1989
Self
Mr. X
Movie • 2014
Self
The Enchantment
Movie • 1989
Librarian
Pulse
Movie • 2001
Man in Internet (uncredited)
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
Movie • 2015
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Movie • 2015
Self
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Movie • 2014
Self
SCHOOL SOUNDS
Movie • 1978
West Wind
Movie • 1977
Bazin
All Girls Are Twins
Movie • 1980
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Movie • 2003
Himself
LOSING THE WAY
Movie • 1982
Yakuza
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
Movie • 2011
Self
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Movie • 2007
Self
Les Cuisiniers of Chime
Movie • 2024
Self
Reincarnation
Movie • 2005
Professor Kawashima
A Haunted School
Movie • 1996
Photography professor
Occult
Movie • 2009
Self
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits
Movie • 2017
Himself
Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images
Movie • 2017
Himself
Pink Ribbon
Movie • 2004
Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
Movie • 2014
Self
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images
Movie • 2018
Self
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
Movie • 2006
self
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Movie • 1985
Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
Vertigo College
Movie • 1980
Manager
Fangs Crazy for White Skin
Movie • 1977
Narrator (voice)
Terror from the Internet
Movie • 2017
Self
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
Movie • 2010
自己
Breakfast of the Movie
Movie • 2023
Stranger
Movie • 1991
Passenger with flowers
Wild Life
Movie • 1997
The Ozu Diaries
Movie • 2025
Self
No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation
Movie • 2022
Self
The Detective Who Can Say No
Movie • 2003
殺しのはらわた
Movie • 2006
突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
Movie • 2003
Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito
Movie • 1987
Making of Charisma
Movie
Leçon de Cinéma
TV • 2004
Self
Horror's Greatest
TV • 2024
Self - Director, Cure