Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Known for: Directing
Born: July 19, 1955, Kobe, Japan
Movies: 121

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.

Upcoming Kiyoshi Kurosawa Movies

Making of Charisma

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

7.6

Cure

1997

6.7

Pulse

2001

7.4

Tokyo Sonata

2008

7.2

Hitchcock/Truffaut

2015

6.7

Creepy

2016

6.1

Reincarnation

2005

6.7

Cloud

2024

6.5

Retribution

2007

6.7

Wife of a Spy

2020

6.5

Before We Vanish

2017

Filmography

2025	The Ozu Diaries	Self
2024	Les Cuisiniers of Chime	Self
2023	Breakfast of the Movie
2023	Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts	Himself
2023	The J-Horror Virus
2022	No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation	Self
2018	Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images	Self
2018	The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
2017	Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images	Himself
2017	Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits	Self
2017	Terror from the Internet	Self
2015	Hitchcock/Truffaut	Self
2015	Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2014	Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema	Self
2014	Henri Langlois vu par...	Self
2014	Mr. X	Self
2011	Japanese Cinema: New Territories	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	自己
2009	Occult	Self
2007	Les fantômes de Kiyoshi	Self
2007	Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows	Self
2006	Masters of Killing
2006	What's a Director?
2006	Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'	self
2005	Reincarnation	Professor Kawashima
2004	Pink Ribbon	Self
2003	突貫ジジイ第5話ある実験
2003	3 on 3
2003	Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Himself
2003	Deka Matsuri
2003	The Detective Who Can Say No
2001	Pulse	Man in Internet (uncredited)
2001	Gore from Outer Space
1999	Making Of Charisma	Self
1997	Wild Life
1996	A Haunted School	Photography professor
1991	Mikadroid	Military Police Officer A
1991	Stranger	Passenger with flowers
1989	The Enchantment	Librarian
1989	Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'	Self
1987	Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito
1985	The Legend of the Stardust Brothers	Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
1984	The Funeral	Assistant Director
1982	LOSING THE WAY	Yakuza
1980	Vertigo College	Manager
1980	All Girls Are Twins
1979	The Man Who Stole the Sun	Suspect on TV News
1978	SCHOOL SOUNDS
1977	West Wind	Bazin
1977	Fangs Crazy for White Skin	Narrator (voice)

Directing, Writing & Producing

2026	The Samurai and the Prisoner	Director, Screenplay
2024	Cloud	Screenplay, Director
2024	Chime	Director, Screenplay
2024	Serpent's Path	Director, Writer
2022	Actually...	Director
2020	Wife of a Spy	Director, Screenplay
2019	To the Ends of the Earth	Writer, Director
2017	Foreboding	Director
2017	Before We Vanish	Director, Screenplay
2016	Daguerrotype	Director
2016	Creepy	Director, Screenplay
2015	Journey to the Shore	Director, Screenplay
2014	Henri Langlois vu par...	Director
2014	Seventh Code	Director, Writer
2013	Real	Screenplay, Director
2013	Penance	Director, Screenplay
2013	Beautiful New Bay Area Project	Director, Screenplay
2013	Beautiful 2013	Director
2012	Wordholic Prisoner	Director
2008	Tokyo Sonata	Director, Writer
2007	Retribution	Director, Screenplay
2006	Loft	Screenplay, Director
2005	Time Slip	Director
2005	Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs	Director
2004	Ghost Cop	Director
2004	Séance	Director
2004	Soul Dancing	Director, Writer
2003	Doppelgänger	Director, Screenplay
2003	Bright Future	Director, Writer
2003	Deka Matsuri	Director
2003	Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp	Director
2001	School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special	Director
2001	Pulse	Director, Writer
2001	Hanako San	Director
1999	Barren Illusion	Screenplay, Director
1999	Charisma	Director, Screenplay
1999	License to Live	Director, Screenplay
1998	School Ghost Story G	Director
1998	Eyes of the Spider	Director, Screenplay
1998	Serpent's Path	Director
1998	Kodama	Director
1997	Cure	Director, Screenplay
1997	School Ghost Story F	Director
1997	The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears	Director, Screenplay
1997	The Revenge: A Visit from Fate	Director
1996	Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero	Director
1996	Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche	Director, Screenplay
1996	Door III	Director
1996	Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble	Screenplay, Director
1996	Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot	Screenplay, Director
1995	Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape	Director, Screenplay
1995	Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist	Director, Writer
1994	Men of Rage	Director, Writer
1994	Yakuza Taxi	Director, Screenplay
1992	The Guard from Underground	Director, Screenplay
1992	Whirlpool of Joy	Director, Writer
1989	Dangerous Stories	Director, Screenplay
1989	Sweet Home	Director, Writer
1985	Bumpkin Soup	Director, Writer
1985	Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita	Director
1983	Kandagawa Pervert Wars	Director, Screenplay
1983	The New Seven Lines Between Things	Director
1982	So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex	Writer
1982	The Night Before the Escape	Director
1980	Vertigo College	Director
1978	School Days	Director
1977	Fangs Crazy for White Skin	Director
1976	The Flashing Signal	Director
1976	Record of Indefinite Travel	Director
1975	Teacher of Violence: Massacre in Broad Daylight	Director
1973	Rokkô	Director

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