Person
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Directing · Born 1955-07-19 · Kobe, Japan
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.
Known for
Ju-on: The Grudge
Creative Consultant
Leçon de Cinéma
Self
Cure
Director
Horror's Greatest
Self - Director, Cure
Cloud
Director
Pulse
Man in Internet (uncredited)
The Samurai and the Prisoner
Director
Penance
Writer
Pulse
Original Film Writer
Modern Love Tokyo
Writer
Filmography
- 2026The Samurai and the PrisonerDirector
- 2025The Ozu DiariesSelf
- 2024CloudDirector
- 2024Horror's GreatestSelf - Director, Cure
- 2024ChimeDirector
- 2024Les Cuisiniers of ChimeSelf
- 2024Serpent's PathDirector
- 2023Breakfast of the Movie
- 2023Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese GhostsHimself
- 2023The J-Horror Virus
- 2022Modern Love TokyoWriter
- 2022No Boundaries: A Cure ConversationSelf
- 2022Actually...Director
- 2020Wife of a SpyDirector
- 2019To the Ends of the EarthDirector
- 2018Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des imagesSelf
- 2018The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
- 2017ForebodingTeleplay
- 2017Foreboding: Serial VersionDirector
- 2017Before We VanishDirector
- 2017Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken CircuitsHimself
- 2017Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy ImagesHimself
- 2017Terror from the InternetSelf
- 2016DaguerrotypeDirector
- 2016CreepyDirector
- 2015Journey to the ShoreDirector
- 2015Hitchcock/TruffautSelf
- 2015Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
- 2014Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New CinemaSelf
- 2014Henri Langlois vu par...Self
- 2014Mr. XSelf
- 2014Seventh CodeDirector
- 2013RealDirector
- 2013PenanceDirector
- 2013Beautiful New Bay Area ProjectDirector
- 2013Beautiful 2013Director
- 2012Wordholic PrisonerDirector
- 2012PenanceWriter
- 2011Japanese Cinema: New TerritoriesSelf
- 2010女優霊の原点・幻のフィルム 『シェラデコブレの幽霊』を探して自己
- 2009OccultSelf
- 2008Tokyo SonataDirector
- 2007Val Lewton: The Man in the ShadowsSelf
- 2007RetributionDirector
- 2006Masters of Killing
- 2006What's a Director?
- 2006Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'self
- 2006LoftDirector
- 2006PulseOriginal Film Writer
- 2005ReincarnationProfessor Kawashima
- 2005Time SlipDirector
- 2005Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of BugsDirector
- 2004Pink RibbonSelf
- 2004Ghost CopDirector
- 2004SéanceDirector
- 2004Leçon de CinémaSelf
- 2004Soul DancingDirector
- 2003突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
- 2003DoppelgängerDirector
- 20033 on 3
- 2003Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi KurosawaHimself
- 2003Bright FutureDirector
- 2003Deka Matsuri
- 2003The Detective Who Can Say No
- 2003Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind ImpDirector
- 2002Ju-on: The GrudgeCreative Consultant
- 2001School Ghost Story: Mononoke SpecialDirector
- 2001PulseMan in Internet (uncredited)
- 2001Gore from Outer Space
- 2001Hanako SanDirector
- 1999Making Of CharismaSelf
- 1999Barren IllusionDirector
- 1999CharismaDirector
- 1999License to LiveDirector
- 1998School Ghost Story GDirector
- 1998Eyes of the SpiderDirector
- 1998Serpent's PathDirector
- 1998KodamaDirector
- 1997CureDirector
- 1997School Ghost Story FDirector
- 1997The Revenge: A Scar That Never DisappearsDirector
- 1997Wild Life
- 1997The Revenge: A Visit from FateDirector
- 1996A Haunted SchoolPhotography professor
- 1996Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The HeroDirector
- 1996Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau RicheDirector
- 1996Door IIIDirector
- 1996Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The GambleScreenplay
- 1996Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The LootScreenplay
- 1995Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The EscapeDirector
- 1995Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The HeistDirector
- 1994Men of RageDirector
- 1994Yakuza TaxiDirector
- 1992The Guard from UndergroundDirector
- 1992Whirlpool of JoyDirector
- 1991MikadroidMilitary Police Officer A
- 1991StrangerPassenger with flowers
- 1989The EnchantmentLibrarian
- 1989Dangerous StoriesDirector
- 1989Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'Self
- 1989Sweet HomeDirector
- 1987Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito
- 1985Bumpkin SoupDirector
- 1985The Legend of the Stardust BrothersVisitor of Salon "Uonome"
- 1985Yatsura wa konya mo yattekitaDirector
- 1984The FuneralAssistant Director
- 1983Kandagawa Pervert WarsDirector
- 1983The New Seven Lines Between ThingsDirector
- 1982Wolf: Running Is SexProduction Assistant
- 1982So Long, My Partner: Rock Is SexWriter
- 1982LOSING THE WAYYakuza
- 1982The Night Before the EscapeDirector
- 1981Sailor Suit and Machine GunAssistant Director
- 1980Vertigo CollegeManager
- 1980All Girls Are Twins
- 1979The Man Who Stole the SunSuspect on TV News
- 1978SCHOOL SOUNDS
- 1978School DaysDirector
- 1977West WindBazin
- 1977Fangs Crazy for White SkinNarrator (voice)
- 1976The Flashing SignalDirector
- 1976Record of Indefinite TravelDirector
- 1975Teacher of Violence: Massacre in Broad DaylightDirector
- 1973RokkôDirector
- —Making of Charisma
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