Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Personal Info

Birthday

July 19, 1955

(70 years old)

Place of Birth

Kobe, Japan

Also Known As

黒沢清

구로사와 기요시

Киёси Куросава

黑泽清

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

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.

Known For

Pulse

The Funeral

The Man Who Stole the Sun

Reincarnation

Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla

Stranger

The Enchantment

Fangs Crazy for White Skin

Filmography

2024
Les Cuisiniers of Chime
as Self
2023
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
as Himself
2018
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images
as Self
2017
Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images
as Himself
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits
as Himself
Terror from the Internet
as Self
2015
Hitchcock/Truffaut
as Self
2014
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
as Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
as Self
Mr. X
as Self
2011
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
as Self
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
as 自己
2009
Occult
as Self
2007
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
as Self
2006
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
as self
2005
Reincarnation
as Professor Kawashima
2004
Pink Ribbon
as Himself
2003
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
as Himself
2001
Pulse
as Man in Internet (uncredited)
1991
Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
as Military Police Officer A
Stranger
as Passenger with flowers
1989
The Enchantment
as Librarian
Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
as Self
1985
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
as Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
1984
The Funeral
as Assistant Director
1982
LOSING THE WAY
as Yakuza
1980
Vertigo College
as Manager
1979
The Man Who Stole the Sun
as Suspect on TV News
1977
Fangs Crazy for White Skin
as Narrator (voice)
West Wind
as Bazin