Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Born

1955-07-19

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.

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Acting History

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