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.

Directed

1. Cure (1997) — Director
2. Pulse (2001) — Director
3. Tokyo Sonata (2008) — Director
4. Creepy (2016) — Director
5. Cloud (2024) — Director
6. Retribution (2007) — Director
7. Wife of a Spy (2020) — Director
8. Before We Vanish (2017) — Director
9. Chime (2024) — Director
10. Journey to the Shore (2015) — Director
11. Real (2013) — Director
12. To the Ends of the Earth (2019) — Director
13. Charisma (1999) — Director
14. Bright Future (2003) — Director
15. Séance (2004) — Director
16. Doppelgänger (2003) — Director
17. Daguerrotype (2016) — Director
18. Penance (2013) — Director
19. Loft (2006) — Director
20. Sweet Home (1989) — Director
21. Seventh Code (2014) — Director
22. Serpent's Path (2024) — Director
23. Serpent's Path (1998) — Director
24. Eyes of the Spider (1998) — Director
25. Penance (2012) — Director
26. Modern Love Tokyo (2022) — Director
27. License to Live (1999) — Director
28. The Guard from Underground (1992) — Director
29. Bumpkin Soup (1985) — Director
30. Barren Illusion (1999) — Director
31. Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs (2005) — Director
32. Foreboding (2017) — Director
33. Kandagawa Pervert Wars (1983) — Director
34. School Ghost Story G (1998) — Director
35. Beautiful New Bay Area Project (2013) — Director
36. Door III (1996) — Director
37. The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026) — Director
38. Actually... (2022) — Director
39. The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears (1997) — Director
40. Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape (1995) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Pulse (2001) — Man in Internet (uncredited)
2. Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) — Self
3. Reincarnation (2005) — Professor Kawashima
4. Occult (2009) — Self
5. The Funeral (1984) — Assistant Director
6. The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) — Suspect on TV News
7. The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985) — Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
8. Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007) — Self
9. Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014) — Self
10. Horror's Greatest (2024) — Self - Director, Cure
11. Mr. X (2014) — Self
12. Mikadroid (1991) — Military Police Officer A
13. Pink Ribbon (2004) — Self
14. The Enchantment (1989) — Librarian
15. Gore from Outer Space (2001)
16. A Haunted School (1996) — Photography professor
17. Stranger (1991) — Passenger with flowers
18. Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home' (1989) — Self
19. Breakfast of the Movie (2023)
20. Wild Life (1997)
21. The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers (2018)
22. Henri Langlois vu par... (2014) — Self
23. Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku' (2006) — self
24. 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
25. Leçon de Cinéma (2004) — Self
26. What's a Director? (2006)
27. 3 on 3 (2003)
28. Deka Matsuri (2003)
29. The J-Horror Virus (2023)
30. Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts (2023) — Himself
31. Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague (2015)
32. SCHOOL SOUNDS (1978)
33. West Wind (1977) — Bazin
34. All Girls Are Twins (1980)
35. Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2003) — Himself
36. LOSING THE WAY (1982) — Yakuza
37. Japanese Cinema: New Territories (2011) — Self
38. Les Cuisiniers of Chime (2024) — Self
39. Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits (2017) — Himself
40. Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images (2017) — Himself