
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Directing·July 19, 1955 — 70 years old·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.
Known For
Filmography · 124
—Making of Charisma2026The Samurai and the PrisonerDirector · Screenplay2025The Ozu DiariesSelf2024CloudDirector · Screenplay2024Horror's GreatestTVSelf - Director, Cure2024ChimeDirector · Screenplay2024Les Cuisiniers of ChimeSelf2024Serpent's PathDirector · Writer2023Breakfast of the Movie2023Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese GhostsHimself2023The J-Horror Virus2022Modern Love TokyoTVWriter · Director2022No Boundaries: A Cure ConversationSelf2022Actually...Director2020Wife of a SpyDirector · Screenplay2019To the Ends of the EarthDirector · Writer2018Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des imagesSelf2018The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers2017ForebodingTeleplay · Director2017Foreboding: Serial VersionTVDirector · Teleplay2017Before We VanishDirector · Screenplay2017Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken CircuitsHimself2017Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy ImagesHimself2017Terror from the InternetSelf2016DaguerrotypeDirector · Scenario Writer2016CreepyDirector · Screenplay2015Journey to the ShoreDirector · Screenplay2015Hitchcock/TruffautSelf2015Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague2014Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New CinemaSelf2014Henri Langlois vu par...Self · Director2014Mr. XSelf2014Seventh CodeDirector · Writer2013RealDirector · Screenplay2013PenanceDirector · Screenplay2013Beautiful New Bay Area ProjectDirector · Screenplay2013Beautiful 2013Director2012Wordholic PrisonerDirector2012PenanceTVWriter · Director · Creator2011Japanese Cinema: New TerritoriesSelf2010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2009OccultSelf2008Tokyo SonataDirector · Writer2007Val Lewton: The Man in the ShadowsSelf2007RetributionDirector · Screenplay2006Masters of Killing2006What's a Director?2006Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'self2006LoftDirector · Screenplay2006PulseOriginal Film Writer2005ReincarnationProfessor Kawashima2005Time SlipDirector2005Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of BugsDirector2004Pink RibbonSelf2004Ghost CopDirector2004SéanceDirector · Teleplay2004Leçon de CinémaTVSelf2004Soul DancingDirector · Writer2003突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験2003DoppelgängerDirector · Screenplay · Editor20033 on 32003Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi KurosawaHimself2003Bright FutureDirector · Writer · Editor2003Deka MatsuriDirector2003The Detective Who Can Say No2003Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind ImpDirector2002Ju-on: The GrudgeCreative Consultant2001School Ghost Story: Mononoke SpecialDirector2001PulseMan in Internet (uncredited) · Director · Writer2001Gore from Outer Space2001Hanako SanDirector1999Barren IllusionDirector · Screenplay1999CharismaDirector · Screenplay1999License to LiveDirector · Screenplay1998School Ghost Story GDirector1998Eyes of the SpiderDirector · Screenplay1998Serpent's PathDirector1998KodamaDirector1997CureDirector · Screenplay1997School Ghost Story FDirector1997The Revenge: A Scar That Never DisappearsDirector · Screenplay1997Wild Life1997The Revenge: A Visit from FateDirector1996A Haunted SchoolPhotography professor1996Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The HeroDirector1996Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau RicheDirector · Screenplay1996Door IIIDirector1996Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The GambleScreenplay · Director1996Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The LootScreenplay · Director1995Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The EscapeDirector · Screenplay1995Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The HeistDirector · Writer1994Men of RageDirector · Writer1994Yakuza TaxiDirector · Screenplay1992The Guard from UndergroundDirector · Screenplay1992Whirlpool of JoyDirector · Writer1991Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club LaylaMilitary Police Officer A1991StrangerPassenger with flowers1989The EnchantmentLibrarian1989Dangerous StoriesDirector · Screenplay1989Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'Self1989Sweet HomeDirector · Writer1987Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito1985Bumpkin SoupDirector · Writer1985The Legend of the Stardust BrothersVisitor of Salon "Uonome"1985Yatsura wa konya mo yattekitaDirector1984The FuneralAssistant Director1983Kandagawa Pervert WarsDirector1983The New Seven Lines Between ThingsDirector1982Wolf: Running Is SexProduction Assistant1982So Long, My Partner: Rock Is SexWriter1982LOSING THE WAYYakuza1982The Night Before the EscapeDirector1981Sailor Suit and Machine GunAssistant Director1980Vertigo CollegeManager · Director1980All Girls Are Twins1979The Man Who Stole the SunSuspect on TV News · Assistant Director1978SCHOOL SOUNDS1978School DaysDirector1977West WindBazin1977Fangs Crazy for White SkinNarrator (voice) · Director1976The Flashing SignalDirector1976Record of Indefinite TravelDirector1975Teacher of Violence: Massacre in Broad DaylightDirector1973RokkôDirector











