Portrait of Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Directing

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.

Born: July 19, 1955

Place of Birth: Kobe, Japan

Filmography

2025
2024
Horror's Greatest

as Self - Director, Cure

2014
Mr. X

as Self

2009
Occult

as Self

2005
Reincarnation

as Professor Kawashima

2004
2003
2001
Pulse

as Man in Internet (uncredited)

1991
1991
Stranger

as Passenger with flowers

1989
The Enchantment

as Librarian

1985
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers

as Visitor of Salon "Uonome"

1984
The Funeral

as Assistant Director

1982
1980
Vertigo College

as Manager

1979
The Man Who Stole the Sun

as Suspect on TV News

1977
West Wind

as Bazin