Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Directing
- July 19, 1955 · Kobe, Japan
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Samurai and the Prisoner · Director, Screenplay
- The Ozu Diaries · Self
- Cloud · Director, Screenplay
- Horror's Greatest · Self
- Chime · Director, Screenplay
- Les Cuisiniers of Chime · Self
- Serpent's Path · Director, Writer
- Breakfast of the Movie
- Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts · Self
- The J-Horror Virus
- Modern Love Tokyo · Writer, Director
- No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation · Self
- Actually... · Director
- Wife of a Spy · Director, Screenplay
- To the Ends of the Earth · Director, Writer
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images · Self
- The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
- Foreboding · Teleplay, Director
- Foreboding: Serial Version · Director, Teleplay
- Before We Vanish · Director, Screenplay
- Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images · Self, Thanks
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits · Self
- Terror from the Internet · Self
- Daguerrotype · Director, Scenario Writer
- Creepy · Director, Screenplay
- Journey to the Shore · Director, Screenplay
- Hitchcock/Truffaut · Self
- Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
- Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema · Self
- Henri Langlois vu par... · Self, Director
- Mr. X · Self
- Seventh Code · Director, Writer
- Real · Director, Screenplay
- Penance · Director, Screenplay
- Beautiful New Bay Area Project · Director, Screenplay
- Beautiful 2013 · Director
- Wordholic Prisoner · Director
- Penance · Writer, Director
- Japanese Cinema: New Territories · 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 · 自己
- Occult · Self
- Tokyo Sonata · Director, Writer
- Les fantômes de Kiyoshi · Self
- Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows · Self
- Retribution · Director, Screenplay
- Masters of Killing
- What's a Director?
- Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku' · Self
- Loft · Director, Screenplay
- Pulse · Original Film Writer
- Reincarnation · Professor Kawashima
- Time Slip · Director
- Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs · Director
- Pink Ribbon · Self
- Ghost Cop · Director
- Séance · Director, Teleplay
- Leçon de Cinéma · Self
- Soul Dancing · Director, Writer
- 突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
- Doppelgänger · Director, Screenplay
- 3 on 3
- Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa · Self
- Bright Future · Director, Writer
- Deka Matsuri · Director
- The Detective Who Can Say No
- Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp · Director
- Ju-on: The Grudge · Creative Consultant
- School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special · Director
- Pulse · Man in Internet (uncredited), Director
- Gore from Outer Space
- Hanako San · Director
- Making Of Charisma · Self
- Barren Illusion · Director, Screenplay
- Charisma · Director, Screenplay
- License to Live · Director, Screenplay
- School Ghost Story G · Director
- Eyes of the Spider · Director, Screenplay
- Serpent's Path · Director
- Kodama · Director
- Cure · Director, Screenplay