Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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.
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Movies (123)
The Samurai and the Prisoner
2026 · Director, Screenplay
The Ozu Diaries
2025 · Self
Cloud
2024 · Director, Screenplay
Chime
2024 · Director, Screenplay
Les Cuisiniers of Chime
2024 · Self
Serpent's Path
2024 · Director, Writer
Breakfast of the Movie
2023
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
2023 · Himself
The J-Horror Virus
2023
No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation
2022 · Self
Actually...
2022 · Director
Wife of a Spy
2020 · Director, Screenplay
To the Ends of the Earth
2019 · Writer, Director
The Making Of Before We Vanish
2019 · Self
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images
2018 · Self
The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
2018
Foreboding
2017 · Teleplay, Director
Before We Vanish
2017 · Screenplay, Director
Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images
2017 · Himself, Thanks
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits
2017 · Self
Terror from the Internet
2017 · Self
Daguerrotype
2016 · Director, Scenario Writer
Creepy
2016 · Director, Screenplay
Journey to the Shore
2015 · Director, Screenplay
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015 · Self
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2015
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014 · Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014 · Self, Director
Mr. X
2014 · Self
Seventh Code
2014 · Director, Writer
Real
2013 · Director, Screenplay
Penance
2013 · Director, Screenplay
Beautiful New Bay Area Project
2013 · Director, Screenplay
Beautiful 2013
2013 · Director
Wordholic Prisoner
2012 · Director
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
2011 · 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
2010 · 自己
Occult
2009 · Self
Tokyo Sonata
2008 · Director, Writer
Les fantômes de Kiyoshi
2007 · Self
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
2007 · Self
Retribution
2007 · Director, Screenplay
Masters of Killing
2006
What's a Director?
2006
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
2006 · self
Loft
2006 · Director, Screenplay
Pulse - La puerta de los muertos
2006 · Original Film Writer
Reincarnation
2005 · Professor Kawashima
Time Slip
2005 · Director
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
2005 · Director
Pink Ribbon
2004 · Self
Ghost Cop
2004 · Director
Séance
2004 · Director, Teleplay
Soul Dancing
2004 · Director, Writer
突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
2003
Doppelgänger
2003 · Director, Screenplay, Editor
3 on 3
2003
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2003 · Himself
Bright Future
2003 · Editor, Writer, Director
Deka Matsuri
2003 · Director
The Detective Who Can Say No
2003
Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp
2003 · Director
Ju-on: The Grudge
2002 · Creative Consultant
School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special
2001 · Director
Pulse
2001 · Man in Internet (uncredited), Director, Writer
Gore from Outer Space
2001
Hanako San
2001 · Director
Making Of Charisma
1999 · Self
Barren Illusion
1999 · Screenplay, Director
Charisma
1999 · Director, Screenplay
License to Live
1999 · Director, Screenplay
School Ghost Story G
1998 · Director
Eyes of the Spider
1998 · Director, Screenplay
Serpent's Path
1998 · Director
Kodama
1998 · Director
Cure
1997 · Director, Screenplay
School Ghost Story F
1997 · Director
The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
1997 · Director, Screenplay
Wild Life
1997
The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
1997 · Director
A Haunted School
1996 · Photography professor
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero
1996 · Director
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche
1996 · Director, Screenplay
Door III
1996 · Director
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble
1996 · Screenplay, Director
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot
1996 · Screenplay, Director
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
1995 · Director, Screenplay
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
1995 · Director, Writer
Men of Rage
1994 · Director, Writer
Yakuza Taxi
1994 · Director, Screenplay
The Guard from Underground
1992 · Director, Screenplay
Whirlpool of Joy
1992 · Director, Writer
Mikadroid
1991 · Military Police Officer A
Stranger
1991 · Passenger with flowers
The Enchantment
1989 · Librarian
Dangerous Stories
1989 · Director, Screenplay
Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
1989 · Self
Sweet Home
1989 · Director, Writer
Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito
1987
Bumpkin Soup
1985 · Writer, Director
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
1985 · Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita
1985 · Director
The Funeral
1984 · Assistant Director
Kandagawa Pervert Wars
1983 · Director, Screenplay
The New Seven Lines Between Things
1983 · Director
Wolf: Running Is Sex
1982 · Production Assistant
So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex
1982 · Writer
LOSING THE WAY
1982 · Yakuza
The Night Before the Escape
1982 · Director
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981 · Assistant Director
Vertigo College
1980 · Manager, Director
All Girls Are Twins
1980
The Man Who Stole the Sun
1979 · Suspect on TV News, Assistant Director
SCHOOL SOUNDS
1978
School Days
1978 · Director
West Wind
1977 · Bazin
Fangs Crazy for White Skin
1977 · Narrator (voice), Director
The Flashing Signal
1976 · Director
Record of Indefinite Travel
1976 · Director
Teacher of Violence: Massacre in Broad Daylight
1975 · Director
Rokkô
1973 · Director
Making of Charisma
Pulse
· Original Film Writer
