Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

51

Gender

Male

Birthday

1955-07-19 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Kobe, Japan

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

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

  • Hitchcock/Truffaut

    Hitchcock/Truffaut

  • Wild Life

    Wild Life

  • Mr. X

    Mr. X

  • Henri Langlois vu par...

    Henri Langlois vu par...

  • Leçon de Cinéma

    Leçon de Cinéma

  • Horror's Greatest

    Horror's Greatest

  • The Detective Who Can Say No

    The Detective Who Can Say No

  • Pulse

    Pulse

  • Reincarnation

    Reincarnation

  • Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

    Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

  • The Man Who Stole the Sun

    The Man Who Stole the Sun

  • The Funeral

    The Funeral

  • Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito

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

  • Occult

    Occult

  • Deka Matsuri

    Deka Matsuri

  • The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers

    The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers

  • Breakfast of the Movie

    Breakfast of the Movie

  • The Legend of the Stardust Brothers

    The Legend of the Stardust Brothers

  • Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

    Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

  • Stranger

    Stranger

  • 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

    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

  • Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla

    Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla

  • LOSING THE WAY

    LOSING THE WAY

  • The J-Horror Virus

    The J-Horror Virus

  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits

    Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits

  • Pink Ribbon

    Pink Ribbon

  • A Haunted School

    A Haunted School

  • The Enchantment

    The Enchantment

  • What's a Director?

    What's a Director?

  • 殺しのはらわた

    殺しのはらわた

  • Gore from Outer Space

    Gore from Outer Space

  • Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts

    Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts

  • 突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験

    突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験

  • Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'

    Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'

  • Japanese Cinema: New Territories

    Japanese Cinema: New Territories

  • Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'

    Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'

  • Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague

    Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague

  • Vertigo College

    Vertigo College

  • No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation

    No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation

  • West Wind

    West Wind

  • All Girls Are Twins

    All Girls Are Twins

  • Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images

    Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images

  • Terror from the Internet

    Terror from the Internet

  • Les Cuisiniers of Chime

    Les Cuisiniers of Chime

  • The Ozu Diaries

    The Ozu Diaries

  • 3 on 3

    3 on 3

  • Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

    Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

  • Fangs Crazy for White Skin

    Fangs Crazy for White Skin

  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images

    Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images

  • SCHOOL SOUNDS

    SCHOOL SOUNDS

  • Making of Charisma

    Making of Charisma