
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director
Born: July 19, 1955 (70 years old)
Place of birth: 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.
Filmography (50)
- The Funeral (1984, ★ 7.1)
- The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979, ★ 7.3)
- Mr. X (2014, ★ 6)
- Pulse (2001, ★ 6.7)
- Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015, ★ 7.2)
- Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014, ★ 7.2)
- Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007, ★ 6.9)
- Reincarnation (2005, ★ 6.1)
- Occult (2009, ★ 6.6)
- The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985, ★ 6.9)
- Horror's Greatest (2024, ★ 6.3)
- Bright Future (2003, ★ 6.8)
- Doppelgänger (2003, ★ 7)
- Tokyo Sonata (2008, ★ 7.4)
- Séance (2001, ★ 7)
- Cure (1997, ★ 7.5)
- Penance (2012, ★ 7.8)
- Retribution (2007, ★ 6.4)
- Eyes of the Spider (1998, ★ 6.7)
- License to Live (1999, ★ 6.1)
- Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981, ★ 7)
- Charisma (1999, ★ 6.7)
- Penance (2013, ★ 7.3)
- Foreboding (2017, ★ 5.7)
- Sweet Home (1989, ★ 6.4)
- The Guard from Underground (1992, ★ 5.9)
- Serpent's Path (1998, ★ 6.8)
- Real (2013, ★ 6.3)
- Journey to the Shore (2015, ★ 6.5)
- Chime (2024, ★ 6.9)