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Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Born July 19, 1955
Kobe, Japan
71 years old

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 …

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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.

127 titles
75 Directing
48 Writing
30 Acting

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Directing (75)

Cure (1997)

Pulse (2001)

Tokyo Sonata (2008)

Creepy (2016)

Cloud (2024)

Retribution (2007)

Wife of a Spy (2020)

Chime (2024)

Before We Vanish (2017)

Journey to the Shore (2015)

Real (2013)

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)

Assistant director

To the Ends of the Earth (2019)

Charisma (1999)

Bright Future (2003)

Doppelgänger (2003)

Séance (2004)

Daguerrotype (2016)

Penance (2013)

Loft (2006)

The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)

Assistant director

Sweet Home (1989)

Serpent's Path (2024)

Seventh Code (2014)

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Serpent's Path (1998)

Eyes of the Spider (1998)

License to Live (1999)

Penance (2012)

Bumpkin Soup (1985)

Modern Love Tokyo (2022)

The Guard from Underground (1992)

Foreboding (2017)

Kandagawa Pervert Wars (1983)

The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026)

Barren Illusion (1999)

Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs (2005)

School Ghost Story G (1998)

Beautiful New Bay Area Project (2013)

Door III (1996)

Actually... (2022)

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape (1995)

The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears (1997)

Yakuza Taxi (1994)

Hanako San (2001)

The Revenge: A Visit from Fate (1997)

Henri Langlois vu par... (2014)

Men of Rage (1994)

Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp (2003)

School Ghost Story F (1997)

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist (1995)

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero (1996)

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot (1996)

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche (1996)

Dangerous Stories (1989)

Foreboding: Serial Version (2017)

Ghost Cop (2004)

Kodama (1998)

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble (1996)

The Flashing Signal (1976)

Whirlpool of Joy (1992)

Wordholic Prisoner (2012)

Beautiful 2013 (2013)

Deka Matsuri (2003)

Fangs Crazy for White Skin (1977)

Record of Indefinite Travel (1976)

Rokkô (1973)

School Days (1978)

School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special (2001)

Soul Dancing (2004)

Teacher of Violence: Massacre in Broad Daylight (1975)

The New Seven Lines Between Things (1983)

The Night Before the Escape (1982)

Time Slip (2005)

Vertigo College (1980)

Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita (1985)

Writing (48)

Cure (1997)

Screenplay

Pulse (2001)

Pulse (2006)

Original Film Writer

Tokyo Sonata (2008)

Creepy (2016)

Screenplay

Cloud (2024)

Screenplay

Retribution (2007)

Screenplay

Wife of a Spy (2020)

Screenplay

Chime (2024)

Screenplay

Before We Vanish (2017)

Screenplay

Journey to the Shore (2015)

Screenplay

Real (2013)

Screenplay

To the Ends of the Earth (2019)

Charisma (1999)

Screenplay

Bright Future (2003)

Doppelgänger (2003)

Screenplay

Séance (2004)

Teleplay

Daguerrotype (2016)

Scenario Writer

Penance (2013)

Screenplay

Loft (2006)

Screenplay

Sweet Home (1989)

Serpent's Path (2024)

Seventh Code (2014)

Eyes of the Spider (1998)

Screenplay

Show all (48)

License to Live (1999)

Screenplay

Penance (2012)

Bumpkin Soup (1985)

Modern Love Tokyo (2022)

The Guard from Underground (1992)

Screenplay

Foreboding (2017)

Teleplay

Kandagawa Pervert Wars (1983)

Screenplay

The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026)

Screenplay

Barren Illusion (1999)

Screenplay

Beautiful New Bay Area Project (2013)

Screenplay

So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex (1982)

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape (1995)

Screenplay

The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears (1997)

Screenplay

Yakuza Taxi (1994)

Screenplay

Men of Rage (1994)

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist (1995)

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot (1996)

Screenplay

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche (1996)

Screenplay

Dangerous Stories (1989)

Screenplay

Foreboding: Serial Version (2017)

Teleplay

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble (1996)

Screenplay

Whirlpool of Joy (1992)

Original Film Writer

Soul Dancing (2004)

Acting (30)

Pulse (2001)

Man in Internet (uncredited)

Reincarnation (2005)

Professor Kawashima

The Funeral (1984)

Assistant Director

The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)

Suspect on TV News

The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985)

Visitor of Salon "Uonome"

Mikadroid (1991)

Military Police Officer A

The Enchantment (1989)

Librarian

A Haunted School (1996)

Photography professor

Gore from Outer Space (2001)

Stranger (1991)

Passenger with flowers

Breakfast of the Movie (2023)

Wild Life (1997)

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)

自己

3 on 3 (2003)

All Girls Are Twins (1980)

Deka Matsuri (2003)

Fangs Crazy for White Skin (1977)

Narrator (voice)

Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague (2015)

LOSING THE WAY (1982)

Yakuza

Making of Charisma

Masters of Killing (2006)

SCHOOL SOUNDS (1978)

Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito (1987)

Show all (30)

The Detective Who Can Say No (2003)

The J-Horror Virus (2023)

Vertigo College (1980)

Manager

West Wind (1977)

Bazin

What's a Director? (2006)

突貫ジジイ第5話ある実験 (2003)

Editing (2)

Bright Future (2003)

Doppelgänger (2003)

Crew (2)

Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)

Creative Consultant

Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images (2017)

Thanks

Production (1)

Wolf: Running Is Sex (1982)

Production Assistant

Creation (1)

Penance (2012)

Appearances (23)

Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)

Self

Occult (2009)

Self

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007)

Self

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014)

Self

Mr. X (2014)

Self

Horror's Greatest (2024)

Self - Director, Cure

Pink Ribbon (2004)

Self

Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home' (1989)

Self

Henri Langlois vu par... (2014)

Self

Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku' (2006)

self

Japanese Cinema: New Territories (2011)

Self

Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2003)

Himself

Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images (2017)

Himself

Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts (2023)

Himself

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images (2018)

Self

Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits (2017)

Self

Les Cuisiniers of Chime (2024)

Self

Les fantômes de Kiyoshi (2007)

Self

Making Of Charisma (1999)

Self

No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation (2022)

Self

Terror from the Internet (2017)

Self

The Making Of Before We Vanish (2019)

Self

The Ozu Diaries (2025)

Self