Kiyoshi Kurosawa

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Directing 71 July 19, 1955

Kobe, Japan

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.…

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Ju-on: The Grudge

Ju-on: The Grudge

6.8 2002 Movie
Cure

Cure

7.6 1997 Movie
Pulse

Pulse

6.7 2001 Movie
Pulse

Pulse

5.1 2006 Movie
Tokyo Sonata

Tokyo Sonata

7.4 2008 Movie
Hitchcock/Truffaut

Hitchcock/Truffaut

7.2 2015 Movie
Creepy

Creepy

6.7 2016 Movie
Cloud

Cloud

6.7 2024 Movie
Reincarnation

Reincarnation

6.1 2005 Movie
Wife of a Spy

Wife of a Spy

6.7 2020 Movie
Retribution

Retribution

6.5 2007 Movie
Before We Vanish

Before We Vanish

6.5 2017 Movie

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    The Samurai and the Prisoner

    Movie Director

  2. 2025
    The Ozu Diaries

    Movie Self

  3. 2024
    Cloud

    Movie Screenplay

  4. 2024
    Horror's Greatest

    TV show Self - Director, Cure

  5. 2024
    Chime

    Movie Director

  6. 2024
    Serpent's Path

    Movie Director

  7. 2024
    Les Cuisiniers of Chime

    Movie Self

  8. 2023
    Breakfast of the Movie

    Movie

  9. 2023
    Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts

    Movie Himself

  10. 2023
    The J-Horror Virus

    Movie

  11. 2022
    Modern Love Tokyo

    TV show Writer

  12. 2022
    No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation

    Movie Self

  13. 2022
    Actually...

    Movie Director

  14. 2020
    Wife of a Spy

    Movie Director

  15. 2019
    To the Ends of the Earth

    Movie Writer

  16. 2018
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images

    Movie Self

More credits
  1. 2018
    The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers

    Movie

  2. 2017
    Foreboding

    Movie Teleplay

  3. 2017
    Foreboding: Serial Version

    TV show Director

  4. 2017
    Before We Vanish

    Movie Director

  5. 2017
    Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images

    Movie Himself

  6. 2017
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits

    Movie Self

  7. 2017
    Terror from the Internet

    Movie Self

  8. 2016
    Daguerrotype

    Movie Director

  9. 2016
    Creepy

    Movie Director

  10. 2015
    Journey to the Shore

    Movie Director

  11. 2015
    Hitchcock/Truffaut

    Movie Self

  12. 2015
    Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague

    Movie

  13. 2014
    Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

    Movie Self

  14. 2014
    Henri Langlois vu par...

    Movie Self

  15. 2014
    Mr. X

    Movie Self

  16. 2014
    Seventh Code

    Movie Director

  17. 2013
    Real

    Movie Screenplay

  18. 2013
    Penance

    Movie Director

  19. 2013
    Beautiful New Bay Area Project

    Movie Director

  20. 2013
    Beautiful 2013

    Movie Director

  21. 2012
    Wordholic Prisoner

    Movie Director

  22. 2012
    Penance

    TV show Writer

  23. 2011
    Japanese Cinema: New Territories

    Movie Self

  24. 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

    Movie 自己