Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Born in Kobe, Japan — Jul 19 1955
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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.
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Modern Love Tokyo
Writing
Cure
Directing
Horror's Greatest
Self - Director, Cure
Penance
Writing
Pulse
Man in Internet (uncredited)
Ju-on: The Grudge
Crew
Door III
Directing
Reincarnation
Professor Kawashima
Pulse
Writing
Cloud
Directing
Retribution
Directing
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Directing
Tokyo Sonata
Directing
The Funeral
Assistant Director
Loft
Directing
Penance
Directing
Foreboding: Serial Version
Directing
Real
Directing
Wife of a Spy
Directing
The Man Who Stole the Sun
Suspect on TV News
Chime
Directing
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
Before We Vanish
Directing
Bright Future
Directing
Serpent's Path
Directing
To the Ends of the Earth
Directing
License to Live
Directing
Creepy
Directing
Journey to the Shore
Directing
Occult
Self
Séance
Directing
Doppelganger
Directing
Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
Military Police Officer A
Wild Life
The Enchantment
Librarian
Beautiful 2013
Directing
Serpent's Path
Directing
The Guard from Underground
Directing
Bumpkin Soup
Directing
Charisma
Directing
Sweet Home
Directing
Eyes of the Spider
Directing
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Self
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Self
The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Dangerous Stories
Directing
What's a Director?
Foreboding
Writing
Gore from Outer Space
Kandagawa Pervert Wars
Directing
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero
Directing
Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp
Directing
School Ghost Story G
Directing
Wolf: Running Is Sex
Production
Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito
Deka Matsuri
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Directing
Barren Illusion
Directing
School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special
Directing
Stranger
Passenger with flowers
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche
Directing
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
Directing
Men of Rage
Directing
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot
Writing
Hanako San
Directing
Yakuza Taxi
Directing
Pink Ribbon
Self
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Himself
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble
Writing
The J-Horror Virus
Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner
Directing
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
Self
Mr. X
Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
School Ghost Story F
Directing
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
Directing
Daguerrotype
Directing
Actually...
Directing
The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
Directing
So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex
Writing
A Haunted School
Photography professor
The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
Directing
Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita
Directing
Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
Self
Breakfast of the Movie
突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
Seventh Code
Directing
3 on 3
Vertigo College
Manager
殺しのはらわた
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
LOSING THE WAY
Yakuza
Soul Dancing
Directing
All Girls Are Twins
Time Slip
Directing
The New Seven Lines Between Things
Directing
Kodama
Directing
The Detective Who Can Say No
West Wind
Bazin
SCHOOL SOUNDS
Les Cuisiniers of Chime
Self
The Ozu Diaries
Self
Rokkô
Directing
Whirlpool of Joy
Directing
Beautiful New Bay Area Project
Directing
Fangs Crazy for White Skin
Narrator (voice)
Teacher of Violence: Massacre in Broad Daylight
Directing
Ghost Cop
Directing
Wordholic Prisoner
Directing
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
Himself
Record of Indefinite Travel
Directing
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images
Self
The Flashing Signal
Directing
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
School Days
Directing
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
self
No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation
Self
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Self
Terror from the Internet
Self
The Night Before the Escape
Directing
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits
Himself
Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images
Himself
Making of Charisma