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.
73 directing credits · 51 acting credits
Directing · 73
Modern Love Tokyo
2022
Cure
1997
Penance
2012
Pulse
2001
Foreboding: Serial Version
2017
The Samurai and the Prisoner
2026
Cloud
2024
Journey to the Shore
2015
Tokyo Sonata
2008
Doppelgänger
2003
Charisma
1999
Before We Vanish
2017
Creepy
2016
Serpent's Path
1998
Retribution
2007
Serpent's Path
2024
Wife of a Spy
2020
To the Ends of the Earth
2019
License to Live
1999
Loft
2006
Penance
2013
Séance
2001
Chime
2024
Bright Future
2003
Real
2013
Bumpkin Soup
1985
Eyes of the Spider
1998
Sweet Home
1989
The Guard from Underground
1992
School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special
2001
Foreboding
2017
Dangerous Stories
1989
Daguerrotype
2016
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche
1996
School Ghost Story G
1998
The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
1997
Barren Illusion
1999
Kandagawa Pervert Wars
1983
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble
1996
Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita
1985
Door III
1996
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
2005
School Ghost Story F
1997
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero
1996
Actually...
2022
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
1995
Seventh Code
2014
Deka Matsuri
2003
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
1995
The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
1997
Men of Rage
1994
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Yakuza Taxi
1994
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot
1996
Soul Dancing
2004
Wordholic Prisoner
2012
Vertigo College
1980
Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp
2003
Hanako San
2001
Beautiful 2013
2013
The New Seven Lines Between Things
1983
Time Slip
2005
Whirlpool of Joy
1992
The Night Before the Escape
1982
Record of Indefinite Travel
1976
Kodama
1998
Fangs Crazy for White Skin
1977
Teacher of Violence: Massacre in Broad Daylight
1975
School Days
1978
Ghost Cop
2004
Rokkô
1973
Beautiful New Bay Area Project
2013
The Flashing Signal
1976
Acting · 51
Leçon de Cinéma
2004
Horror's Greatest
2024
Pulse
2001
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
2023
The Funeral
1984
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
2011
Reincarnation
2005
The Man Who Stole the Sun
1979
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2015
Wild Life
1997
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
2006
Occult
2009
The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
2018
Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito
1987
Stranger
1991
The Enchantment
1989
Mr. X
2014
Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
1991
Pink Ribbon
2004
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
1985
Gore from Outer Space
2001
Les Cuisiniers of Chime
2024
Deka Matsuri
2003
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images
2017
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
2007
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images
2018
3 on 3
2003
The Ozu Diaries
2025
Breakfast of the Movie
2023
What's a Director?
2006
The Detective Who Can Say No
2003
A Haunted School
1996
Vertigo College
1980
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2003
West Wind
1977
LOSING THE WAY
1982
The J-Horror Virus
2023
Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
1989
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits
2017
All Girls Are Twins
1980
No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation
2022
Fangs Crazy for White Skin
1977
Masters of Killing
2006
Making of Charisma
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突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
2003
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
SCHOOL SOUNDS
1978
Terror from the Internet
2017