Kiyoshi Kurosawa
July 19, 1955 (69 years old) in 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Les Cuisiniers of Chime as Self
- 2023 · Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts as Himself
- 2023 · The J-Horror Virus as
- 2018 · Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images as Self
- 2018 · The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers as
- 2017 · Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits as Himself
- 2017 · Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images as Himself
- 2015 · Hitchcock/Truffaut as Self
- 2015 · Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague as
- 2014 · Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema as Self
- 2014 · Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
- 2014 · Mr. X as Self
- 2011 · Japanese Cinema: New Territories as Self
- 2009 · Occult as Self
- 2007 · Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows as Self
- 2006 · What's a Director? as
- 2006 · Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku' as self
- 2006 · Reincarnation as Professor Kawashima
- 2004 · Pink Ribbon as Himself
- 2004 · Leçon de Cinéma as Self
- 2003 · 3 on 3 as
- 2003 · Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Himself
- 2003 · Deka Matsuri as
- 2001 · Pulse as Man in Internet (uncredited)
- 2001 · Gore from Outer Space as
- 1996 · A Haunted School as
- 1991 · Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla as Military Police Officer A
- 1989 · The Enchantment as Librarian
- 1989 · Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home' as Self
- 1985 · The Legend of the Stardust Brothers as Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
- 1984 · The Funeral as Assistant Director
- 1982 · LOSING THE WAY as Yakuza
- 1980 · Vertigo College as Manager
- 1980 · All Girls Are Twins as
- 1979 · The Man Who Stole the Sun as Suspect on TV News
- 1978 · SCHOOL SOUNDS as
- 1977 · West Wind as Bazin
- 1977 · Fangs Crazy for White Skin as Narrator (voice)