Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Directing
Born July 19, 1955 · Kobe, Japan
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.
Directed (70)
Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner
2026
Cloud
2024
Chime
2024
Serpent's Path
2024
Actually...
2022
Wife of a Spy
2020
To the Ends of the Earth
2019
Foreboding
2017
Before We Vanish
2017
Daguerrotype
2016
Creepy
2016
Journey to the Shore
2015
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Seventh Code
2013
Real
2013
Penance
2013
Beautiful New Bay Area Project
2013
Beautiful 2013
2013
Wordholic Prisoner
2012
Tokyo Sonata
2008
Retribution
2007
Loft
2006
Time Slip
2005
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
2005
Ghost Cop
2004
Soul Dancing
2004
Doppelganger
2003
Bright Future
2003
Deka Matsuri
2003
Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp
2003
School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special
2001
Pulse
2001
Hanako San
2001
Séance
2000
Barren Illusion
1999
Charisma
1999
License to Live
1999
School Ghost Story G
1998
Eyes of the Spider
1998
Serpent's Path
1998
Kodama
1998
Cure
1997
School Ghost Story F
1997
The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
1997
The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
1997
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero
1996
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche
1996
Door III
1996
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble
1996
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot
1996
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
1995
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
1995
Men of Rage
1994
Yakuza Taxi
1994
The Guard from Underground
1992
Whirlpool of Joy
1992
Dangerous Stories
1989
Sweet Home
1989
Bumpkin Soup
1985
Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita
1985
Kandagawa Pervert Wars
1983
The New Seven Lines Between Things
1983
The Night Before the Escape
1982
Vertigo College
1980
School Days
1978
Fangs Crazy for White Skin
1977
The Flashing Signal
1976
Record of Indefinite Travel
1976
Teacher of Violence: Massacre in Broad Daylight
1975
Rokkô
1973
Acting (48)
The Ozu Diaries
2025
Les Cuisiniers of Chime
2024
Breakfast of the Movie
2023
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
2023
The J-Horror Virus
2023
No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation
2022
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images
2018
The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
2018
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits
2017
Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images
2017
Terror from the Internet
2017
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2015
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Mr. X
2014
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
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
2010
Occult
2009
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
2007
殺しのはらわた
2006
What's a Director?
2006
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
2006
Reincarnation
2005
Pink Ribbon
2004
突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
2003
3 on 3
2003
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2003
