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.
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A quartet of ghost stories taking place at school: a girl who drowned in the pool begins terrorizing...
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Buddies working at an oshibori factory bond over an uncontrollable rage neither can control, as well...
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Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing hi...
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A married couple living in a house that seems to be inhabited by supernatural beings and beetles. Th...
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A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror fi...
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Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budge...
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A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since ...
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The winds of change blow as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of ...
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Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selo...
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Mizuki's husband Yusuke has been missing for three years. He suddenly comes back home as a ghost and...
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An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter...
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Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a...
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It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chime (2024) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 2 | Wife of a Spy (2020) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 3 | Before We Vanish (2017) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 4 | Creepy (2016) | Director / Writer | 5.7 | |
| 5 | Daguerrotype (2016) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 6 | Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) | Self | 7 | |
| 7 | Journey to the Shore (2015) | Director / Writer | 2 | |
| 8 | Real (2013) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 9 | Occult (2009) | Self | 6 | |
| 10 | Tokyo Sonata (2008) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 11 | Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007) | Self | 7 | |
| 12 | Retribution (2007) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 13 | Pulse (2006) | Director / Writer | 5.1 | |
| 14 | Loft (2006) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 15 | Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs (2005) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 16 | Reincarnation (2005) | Professor Kawashima | 7.4 | |
| 17 | Bright Future (2003) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 18 | Doppelgänger (2003) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 19 | Pulse (2001) | Director / Writer | 7.8 | |
| 20 | Séance (2000) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 21 | Charisma (1999) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 22 | School Ghost Story G (1998) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 23 | Cure (1997) | Director / Writer | 7.8 | |
| 24 | Sweet Home (1989) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 25 | The Funeral (1984) | Assistant Director | 4 | |
| 26 | Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 27 | The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) | Director / Writer | 7 |

