Personal Info
Birthday
July 19, 1955
Place of Birth
Kobe, Japan
Known For
Directing
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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.
Directed Movies (66)
8.4
The Samurai and the Prisoner
Movie2026
6.7
Cloud
Movie2024
6.8
Chime
Movie2024
6.0
Serpent's Path
Movie2024
6.8
Modern Love Tokyo
TV Series2022
6.2
Actually...
Movie2022
6.7
Wife of a Spy
Movie2020
6.4
To the Ends of the Earth
Movie2019
5.7
Foreboding
Movie2017
6.0
Foreboding: Serial Version
TV Series2017
6.5
Before We Vanish
Movie2017
5.6
Daguerrotype
Movie2016
6.7
Creepy
Movie2016
6.6
Journey to the Shore
Movie2015
4.0
Henri Langlois vu par...
Movie2014
5.8
Seventh Code
Movie2014
6.3
Real
Movie2013
7.1
Penance
Movie2013
No Backdrop
6.0
Beautiful New Bay Area Project
Movie2013
No Backdrop
0.0
Beautiful 2013
Movie2013
No Backdrop
0.0
Wordholic Prisoner
Movie2012
7.8
Penance
TV Series2012
7.4
Tokyo Sonata
Movie2008
6.5
Retribution
Movie2007
5.6
Loft
Movie2006
No Backdrop
0.0
Time Slip
Movie2005
5.5
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
Movie2005
7.1
Séance
Movie2004
No Backdrop
0.0
Soul Dancing
Movie2004
7.0
Doppelgänger
Movie2003
6.8
Bright Future
Movie2003
No Backdrop
0.0
Deka Matsuri
Movie2003
No Backdrop
6.0
Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp
Movie2003
No Backdrop
0.0
School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special
Movie2001
6.7
Pulse
Movie2001
5.3
Hanako San
Movie2001
5.7
Barren Illusion
Movie1999
6.8
Charisma
Movie1999
6.2
License to Live
Movie1999
6.6
School Ghost Story G
Movie1998
6.8
Eyes of the Spider
Movie1998
6.9
Serpent's Path
Movie1998
No Backdrop
0.0
Kodama
Movie1998
7.5
Cure
Movie1997
No Backdrop
1.0
School Ghost Story F
Movie1997
6.6
The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
Movie1997
7.2
The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
Movie1997
No Backdrop
9.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero
Movie1996
8.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche
Movie1996
5.5
Door III
Movie1996
No Backdrop
6.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble
Movie1996
8.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot
Movie1996
7.5
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
Movie1995
No Backdrop
8.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Movie1995
No Backdrop
6.0
Men of Rage
Movie1994
6.2
Yakuza Taxi
Movie1994
6.1
The Guard from Underground
Movie1992
No Backdrop
5.0
Whirlpool of Joy
Movie1992
6.4
Sweet Home
Movie1989
5.2
Bumpkin Soup
Movie1985
5.0
Kandagawa Pervert Wars
Movie1983
No Backdrop
0.0
The New Seven Lines Between Things
Movie1983
No Backdrop
0.0
The Night Before the Escape
Movie1982
No Backdrop
0.0
Vertigo College
Movie1980
No Backdrop
0.0
School Days
Movie1978
No Backdrop
0.0
Rokkô
Movie1973
Acting Filmography (50)
0.0
The Ozu Diaries
Movie2025
6.4
Horror's Greatest
TV Series2024
No Backdrop
0.0
Les Cuisiniers of Chime
Movie2024
No Backdrop
7.5
Breakfast of the Movie
Movie2023
No Backdrop
0.0
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
Movie2023
0.0
The J-Horror Virus
Movie2023
No Backdrop
0.0
No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation
Movie2022
No Backdrop
0.0
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images
Movie2018
2.0
The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Movie2018
No Backdrop
0.0
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits
Movie2017
No Backdrop
0.0
Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images
Movie2017
No Backdrop
0.0
Terror from the Internet
Movie2017
7.2
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Movie2015
No Backdrop
0.0
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
Movie2015
7.2
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Movie2014
4.0
Henri Langlois vu par...
Movie2014
5.9
Mr. X
Movie2014
No Backdrop
0.0
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
Movie2011
9.0
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
Movie2010
6.6
Occult
Movie2009
6.9
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Movie2007
No Backdrop
0.0
Masters of Killing
Movie2006
No Backdrop
0.0
What's a Director?
Movie2006
No Backdrop
6.0
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
Movie2006
6.1
Reincarnation
Movie2005
6.4
Pink Ribbon
Movie2004
7.0
Leçon de Cinéma
TV Series2004
No Backdrop
0.0
突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
Movie2003
No Backdrop
0.0
3 on 3
Movie2003
No Backdrop
0.0
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Movie2003
No Backdrop
0.0
Deka Matsuri
Movie2003
No Backdrop
0.0
The Detective Who Can Say No
Movie2003
6.7
Pulse
Movie2001
6.3
Gore from Outer Space
Movie2001
8.0
Wild Life
Movie1997
6.7
A Haunted School
Movie1996
5.7
Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
Movie1991
6.7
Stranger
Movie1991
4.5
The Enchantment
Movie1989
No Backdrop
4.2
Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
Movie1989
0.0
Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito
Movie1987
7.0
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Movie1985
7.1
The Funeral
Movie1984
No Backdrop
0.0
LOSING THE WAY
Movie1982
No Backdrop
0.0
Vertigo College
Movie1980
No Backdrop
0.0
All Girls Are Twins
Movie1980
7.4
The Man Who Stole the Sun
Movie1979
No Backdrop
0.0
SCHOOL SOUNDS
Movie1978
No Backdrop
0.0
West Wind
Movie1977
No Backdrop
0.0
Making of Charisma
MovieN/A