Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Known for: Directing
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.
Filmography
Series
Leçon de Cinéma
Self
2004
Film
Pulse
Man in Internet (uncredited)
2001
Series
Horror's Greatest
Self - Director, Cure
2024
Film
Reincarnation
Professor Kawashima
2005
Film
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Self
2015
Film
Mr. X
Self
2014
Film
The Man Who Stole the Sun
Suspect on TV News
1979
Film
Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
Self
1989
Film
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
self
2006
Film
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
Himself
2023
Film
The Ozu Diaries
Self
2025
Film
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
Self
2011
Film
The Funeral
Assistant Director
1984
Film
Occult
Self
2009
Film
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
2014
Film
Stranger
Passenger with flowers
1991
Film
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits
Himself
2017
Film
Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito
1987
Film
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Self
2014
Film
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images
Self
2018
Film
The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
2018
Film
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
1985
Film
Pink Ribbon
Self
2004
Film
The J-Horror Virus
2023
Film
The Enchantment
Librarian
1989
Film
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Self
2007
Film
Wild Life
1997
Film
Gore from Outer Space
2001
Film
A Haunted School
Photography professor
1996
Film
Deka Matsuri
2003
Film
Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images
Himself
2017
Film
SCHOOL SOUNDS
1978
Film
3 on 3
2003
Film
Mikadroid
Military Police Officer A
1991
Film
No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation
Self
2022
Film
The Detective Who Can Say No
2003
Film
What's a Director?
2006
Film
Breakfast of the Movie
2023
Film
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Himself
2003
Film
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
2010
Film
Masters of Killing
2006
Film
Making of Charisma
Film
Terror from the Internet
Self
2017
Film
West Wind
Bazin
1977
Film
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2015
Film
Vertigo College
Manager
1980
Film
All Girls Are Twins
1980
Film
LOSING THE WAY
Yakuza
1982
Film
突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
2003
Film
Making Of Charisma
Self
1999
Fangs Crazy for White Skin
Narrator (voice)
1977
Film
Les Cuisiniers of Chime
Self
2024