
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
The Ozu Diaries as Self
2024Horror's Greatest as Self - Director, Cure
2024Les Cuisiniers of Chime as Self
2023Breakfast of the Movie
2023Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts as Himself
2023The J-Horror Virus
2020No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation as Self
2018Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images as Self
2018The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
2017Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits as Himself
2017Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images as Himself
2017Terror from the Internet as Self
2015Hitchcock/Truffaut as Self
2015Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2014Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema as Self
2014Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
2014Mr. X as Self
2011Japanese Cinema: New Territories as Self
2010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 as 自己
2009Occult as Self
2007Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows as Self
2006殺しのはらわた
2006What's a Director?
2006Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku' as self
2005Reincarnation as Professor Kawashima
2004Pink Ribbon as Self
2004Leçon de Cinéma as Self
2003突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
20033 on 3
2003Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Himself
2003Deka Matsuri
2003The Detective Who Can Say No
2001Pulse as Man in Internet (uncredited)
2001Gore from Outer Space
1997Wild Life
1996A Haunted School
1991Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla as Military Police Officer A
1991Stranger as Passenger with flowers
1989The Enchantment as Librarian
1989Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home' as Self
1985The Legend of the Stardust Brothers as Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
1984The Funeral as Assistant Director
1982LOSING THE WAY as Yakuza
1980Vertigo College as Manager
1980All Girls Are Twins
1979The Man Who Stole the Sun as Suspect on TV News
1978SCHOOL SOUNDS
1977Fangs Crazy for White Skin as Narrator (voice)
1977West Wind as Bazin








