Kiyoshi Kurosawa

DirectorWriterActorEditorCrew Jul 19 (age 70) Kobe, Japan 1973–2026 (53 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

Cure

Director

Film

Ju-on: The Grudge

Creative Consultant

Film

Pulse

Man in Internet (uncredited)

Film

Tokyo Sonata

Director

Film

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Self

Film

Creepy

Director

Film

Pulse

Original Film Writer

Film

Wife of a Spy

Director

Filmography

Acting (51)

Movies (49)

The Ozu Diaries

2025

as Self

Les Cuisiniers of Chime

2024

as Self

Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts

2023

as Himself

Breakfast of the Movie

2023

7.5

The J-Horror Virus

2023

No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation

2022

as Self

The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers

2018

2.0

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images

2018

as Self

Terror from the Internet

2017

as Self

Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images

2017

as Himself

Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits

2017

as Himself

Hitchcock/Truffaut

2015

as Self

7.2

Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague

2015

Mr. X

2014

as Self

5.9

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

2014

as Self

7.2

Henri Langlois vu par...

2014

as Self

4.0

Japanese Cinema: New Territories

2011

as Self

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

as 自己

Occult

as Self

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

as Self

What's a Director?

殺しのはらわた

Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'

2006

as self

6.0

Reincarnation

2005

as Professor Kawashima

Pink Ribbon

as Self

Deka Matsuri

The Detective Who Can Say No

2003

突貫ジジイ第5話ある実験

2003

Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

2003

as Himself

3 on 3

2003

Pulse

2001

as Man in Internet (uncredited)

6.7

Gore from Outer Space

Wild Life

A Haunted School

as Photography professor

6.5

Stranger

1991

as Passenger with flowers

6.7

Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla

1991

as Military Police Officer A

5.3

The Enchantment

1989

as Librarian

2.7

Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'

1989

as Self

4.2

Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito

1987

The Legend of the Stardust Brothers

1985

as Visitor of Salon "Uonome"

6.8

The Funeral

1984

as Assistant Director

7.1

LOSING THE WAY

1982

as Yakuza

All Girls Are Twins

1980

Vertigo College

1980

as Manager

The Man Who Stole the Sun

1979

as Suspect on TV News

7.3

SCHOOL SOUNDS

1978

West Wind

1977

as Bazin

Fangs Crazy for White Skin

1977

as Narrator (voice)

Making of Charisma

Television (2)

Horror's Greatest

2024

as Self - Director, Cure

6.3

Leçon de Cinéma

2004

as Self

7.0

Crew (127)

Movies (121)

Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner

2026 Upcoming

Director

Jun 19

Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner

2026 Upcoming

Screenplay

Jun 19

Chime

Director

Chime

Screenplay

Cloud

Director

Cloud

Screenplay

Serpent's Path

Director

Serpent's Path

Writer

Actually...

Director

Wife of a Spy

Director

Wife of a Spy

Screenplay

To the Ends of the Earth

2019

Director

6.3

To the Ends of the Earth

Writer

Before We Vanish

Director

Before We Vanish

Screenplay

Foreboding

Director

Foreboding

Teleplay

Creepy

Director

Creepy

Screenplay

Daguerrotype

Director

Daguerrotype

Scenario Writer

Journey to the Shore

Director

Journey to the Shore

Screenplay

Henri Langlois vu par...

2014

Director

4.0

Beautiful New Bay Area Project

2013

Director

6.0

Beautiful New Bay Area Project

Screenplay

Penance

Director

Penance

Screenplay

Seventh Code

Director

Seventh Code

Writer

Real

Director

Real

Screenplay

Beautiful 2013

Director

Wordholic Prisoner

2012

Director

Tokyo Sonata

Director

Tokyo Sonata

Writer

Retribution

Director

Retribution

Screenplay

Loft

Director

Loft

Screenplay

Pulse

Original Film Writer

Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs

2005

Director

5.2

Time Slip

2005

Director

Soul Dancing

2004

Director

Soul Dancing

2004

Writer

Ghost Cop

2004

Director

Bright Future

Director

Bright Future

Editor

Bright Future

Writer

Doppelganger

Director

Doppelganger

Editor

Doppelganger

Screenplay

Deka Matsuri

Director

Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp

Director

Ju-on: The Grudge

Creative Consultant

Pulse

Director

Pulse

Writer

School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special

2001

Director

Hanako San

Director

Séance

Director

Séance

Teleplay

Charisma

Director

Charisma

Screenplay

License to Live

Director

License to Live

Screenplay

Barren Illusion

Director

Barren Illusion

Screenplay

School Ghost Story G

Director

Serpent's Path

Director

Eyes of the Spider

Director

Eyes of the Spider

Screenplay

Kodama

Director

Cure

Director

Cure

Screenplay

The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears

1997

Director

5.8

The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears

1997

Screenplay

5.8

The Revenge: A Visit from Fate

Director

School Ghost Story F

Director

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero

1996

Director

8.0

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche

1996

Director

7.0

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche

Screenplay

Door III

Director

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble

1996

Director

6.0

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble

1996

Screenplay

6.0

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot

1996

Director

8.0

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot

1996

Screenplay

8.0

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist

1995

Director

8.0

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist

1995

Writer

8.0

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape

1995

Director

6.7

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape

Screenplay

Men of Rage

Director

Men of Rage

Writer

Yakuza Taxi

Director

Yakuza Taxi

Screenplay

The Guard from Underground

1992

Director

5.9

The Guard from Underground

1992

Screenplay

5.9

The Guard from Underground

Writer

Whirlpool of Joy

Director

Whirlpool of Joy

Writer

Sweet Home

Director

Sweet Home

Writer

Dangerous Stories

Director

Dangerous Stories

1989

Screenplay

Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita

1985

Director

Bumpkin Soup

Director

Bumpkin Soup

Writer

The New Seven Lines Between Things

1983

Director

Kandagawa Pervert Wars

1983

Director

4.6

The Night Before the Escape

1982

Director

So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex

Writer

Wolf: Running Is Sex

Production Assistant

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

1981

Assistant Director

7.0

Vertigo College

1980

Director

The Man Who Stole the Sun

1979

Assistant Director

7.3

School Days

1978

Director

Fangs Crazy for White Skin

1977

Director

Record of Indefinite Travel

1976

Director

The Flashing Signal

1976

Director

7.0

Teacher of Violence: Massacre in Broad Daylight

1975

Director

Rokkô

1973

Director

Kokurojo

Director

Television (6)

Modern Love Tokyo

Director

Modern Love Tokyo

Writer

Foreboding: Serial Version

2017

Director

6.0

Foreboding: Serial Version

Teleplay

Penance

Director

Penance

Writer