🎬 Director
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
🎂 Born 19 July 1955 (age 70)📍 Kobe, Japan
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Popularity Score
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Acting Credits
63
Directed
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.
Known For
Directed Films(63)
★ 6.0
The Samurai and the Prisoner
2026
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★ 7.6
Cure
1997
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★ 6.7
Pulse
2001
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★ 6.7
Cloud
2024
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★ 7.4
Tokyo Sonata
2008
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★ 6.5
Journey to the Shore
2015
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★ 6.7
Creepy
2016
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★ 5.7
Loft
2006
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★ 6.9
Chime
2024
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★ 6.4
To the Ends of the Earth
2019
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★ 6.7
Wife of a Spy
2020
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★ 6.3
Real
2013
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★ 6.4
Sweet Home
1989
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★ 6.8
Charisma
1999
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★ 6.5
Retribution
2007
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★ 5.2
Bumpkin Soup
1985
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★ 7.3
Penance
2013
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★ 7.0
Doppelgänger
2003
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★ 6.8
Bright Future
2003
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★ 7.1
Séance
2004
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★ 5.0
Kandagawa Pervert Wars
1983
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★ 6.5
Before We Vanish
2017
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★ 6.0
Serpent's Path
2024
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★ 6.1
The Guard from Underground
1992
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★ 6.6
School Ghost Story G
1998
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★ 6.2
License to Live
1999
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★ 5.7
Barren Illusion
1999
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★ 6.9
Serpent's Path
1998
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School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special
2001
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★ 5.5
Door III
1996
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★ 9.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero
1996
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★ 5.7
Foreboding
2017
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Deka Matsuri
2003
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★ 7.2
The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
1997
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★ 6.8
Eyes of the Spider
1998
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★ 6.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble
1996
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★ 8.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche
1996
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★ 6.6
The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
1997
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★ 5.8
Seventh Code
2014
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★ 8.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
1995
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★ 4.0
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
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★ 1.0
School Ghost Story F
1997
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★ 6.2
Actually...
2022
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★ 5.6
Daguerrotype
2016
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★ 7.5
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
1995
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★ 8.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot
1996
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Kodama
1998
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★ 6.2
Yakuza Taxi
1994
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★ 6.0
Men of Rage
1994
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★ 5.5
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
2005
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Wordholic Prisoner
2012
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★ 5.3
Hanako San
2001
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★ 6.0
Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp
2003
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Beautiful 2013
2013
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Vertigo College
1980
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The New Seven Lines Between Things
1983
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★ 6.0
Beautiful New Bay Area Project
2013
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Soul Dancing
2004
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School Days
1978
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Time Slip
2005
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Rokkô
1973
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★ 5.0
Whirlpool of Joy
1992
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The Night Before the Escape
1982
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Full Filmography(47 films)
YearTitleRating
2001Pulse★ 6.71979The Man Who Stole the Sun★ 7.42005Reincarnation★ 6.11984The Funeral★ 7.11997Wild Life★ 8.01991Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla★ 5.71991Stranger★ 6.72006Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'★ 6.02004Pink Ribbon★ 6.42014Mr. X★ 6.02015Hitchcock/Truffaut★ 7.21985The Legend of the Stardust Brothers★ 7.02009Occult★ 6.61987Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito—2014Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema★ 7.22018The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers★ 2.02001Gore from Outer Space★ 6.32003Deka Matsuri—2007Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows★ 6.920033 on 3—2014Henri Langlois vu par...★ 4.02006What's a Director?—1989Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'★ 4.21996A Haunted School★ 6.71989The Enchantment★ 4.52023The J-Horror Virus—2023Breakfast of the Movie★ 7.52025The Ozu Diaries—2003Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa—2023Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts—1980Vertigo College—2011Japanese Cinema: New Territories—2003The Detective Who Can Say No—2018Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images—2006Masters of Killing—2015Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague—2003突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験—1980All Girls Are Twins—2017Terror from the Internet—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★ 9.01978SCHOOL SOUNDS—1977West Wind—1982LOSING THE WAY—2024Les Cuisiniers of Chime—2022No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation—2017Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images—2017Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits—