
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Directing
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

2001
Pulse
2001 · movie

2024
Horror's Greatest
2024 · tv

2004
Leçon de Cinéma
2004 · tv

1991
Stranger
1991 · movie

1979
The Man Who Stole the Sun
1979 · movie

1997
Wild Life
1997 · movie

1984
The Funeral
1984 · movie

2009
Occult
2009 · movie

2005
Reincarnation
2005 · movie

2015
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015 · movie

2023
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
2023 · movie

2014
Mr. X
2014 · movie

2018
The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
2018 · movie

1987
Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito
1987 · movie

2011
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
2011 · movie

2014
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014 · movie

1985
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
1985 · movie

2004
Pink Ribbon
2004 · movie

1996
A Haunted School
1996 · movie

2006
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
2006 · movie

1991
Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
1991 · movie

2015
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2015 · movie

1989
The Enchantment
1989 · movie

2003
Deka Matsuri
2003 · movie

2007
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
2007 · movie

2003
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2003 · movie

2023
The J-Horror Virus
2023 · movie

2010
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 · movie

2001
Gore from Outer Space
2001 · movie

2003
3 on 3
2003 · movie