Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Known for: Directing
Born: July 19, 1955
Place of birth: Kobe, Japan
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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Filmography
121 movies · 5 TV shows, newest first
7.9
The Samurai and the Prisoner
2026
NR
The Ozu Diaries
2025
6.7
Cloud
2024
6.4
Horror's Greatest
2024
6.8
Chime
2024
NR
Les Cuisiniers of Chime
2024
6.0
Serpent's Path
2024
7.5
Breakfast of the Movie
2023
NR
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
2023
NR
The J-Horror Virus
2023
6.8
Modern Love Tokyo
2022
NR
No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation
2022
6.2
Actually...
2022
6.7
Wife of a Spy
2020
6.3
To the Ends of the Earth
2019
NR
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images
2018
2.0
The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
2018
5.7
Foreboding
2017
6.0
Foreboding: Serial Version
2017
6.5
Before We Vanish
2017
NR
Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images
2017NR
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits
2017
NR
Terror from the Internet
2017
5.6
Daguerrotype
2016
6.7
Creepy
2016
6.5
Journey to the Shore
2015
7.2
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
NR
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2015
7.1
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014
5.0
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
6.1
Mr. X
2014
5.8
Seventh Code
2014
6.3
Real
2013
7.1
Penance
2013
6.1
Beautiful New Bay Area Project
2013
NR
Beautiful 2013
2013
5.0
Wordholic Prisoner
2012
7.6
Penance
2012
NR
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
2011
9.0
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
6.7
Occult
2009
7.4
Tokyo Sonata
2008
6.9
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
2007
6.5
Retribution
2007
NR
Masters of Killing
2006
NR
What's a Director?
2006
6.0
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
2006
5.6
Loft
2006
5.1
Pulse
2006
6.1
Reincarnation
2005
NR
Time Slip
2005
5.5
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
2005
6.4
Pink Ribbon
20049.0
Ghost Cop
2004
7.1
Séance
2004
7.0
Leçon de Cinéma
2004
NR
Soul Dancing
2004
NR
突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
2003
6.9
Doppelgänger
2003
NR
3 on 3
2003
NR
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2003
6.9
Bright Future
2003
NR
Deka Matsuri
2003
NR
The Detective Who Can Say No
2003
5.5
Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp
2003
6.8
Ju-on: The Grudge
2002
NR
School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special
2001
6.7
Pulse
2001
6.3
Gore from Outer Space
2001
5.3
Hanako San
2001
NR
Making Of Charisma
1999
5.7
Barren Illusion
1999
6.9
Charisma
1999
6.3
License to Live
1999
6.6
School Ghost Story G
1998
6.8
Eyes of the Spider
1998
6.9
Serpent's Path
1998
5.0
Kodama
1998
7.6
Cure
1997
1.0
School Ghost Story F
1997
6.6
The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
1997
8.0
Wild Life
1997
7.2
The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
1997
6.7
A Haunted School
1996
9.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero
1996
8.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche
1996
5.5
Door III
1996
6.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble
1996
8.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot
1996
7.5
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
1995
8.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
1995
5.5
Men of Rage
1994
6.1
Yakuza Taxi
1994
6.1
The Guard from Underground
19925.0
Whirlpool of Joy
1992
5.7
Mikadroid
1991
6.7
Stranger
1991
4.5
The Enchantment
19897.0
Dangerous Stories
1989
4.2
Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
1989
6.4
Sweet Home
1989
NR
Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito
1987
5.3
Bumpkin Soup
1985
6.9
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
1985NR
Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita
1985
7.1
The Funeral
1984
5.1
Kandagawa Pervert Wars
1983
NR
The New Seven Lines Between Things
1983
1.7
Wolf: Running Is Sex
1982
2.5
So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex
1982
NR
LOSING THE WAY
1982
NR
The Night Before the Escape
1982
7.0
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981
NR
Vertigo College
1980
NR
All Girls Are Twins
1980
7.3
The Man Who Stole the Sun
1979
NR
SCHOOL SOUNDS
1978
NR
School Days
1978
NR
West Wind
1977NR
Fangs Crazy for White Skin
19777.0
The Flashing Signal
1976NR
Record of Indefinite Travel
1976NR
Teacher of Violence: Massacre in Broad Daylight
1975
NR
Rokkô
1973
NR
Making of Charisma
—NR
Pulse
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