
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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
2001

Leçon de Cinéma
2004

The Man Who Stole the Sun
1979

Horror's Greatest
2024

Occult
2009

Reincarnation
2005

The Funeral
1984

Mr. X
2014

Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
1989

Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015

Stranger
1991

Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits
2017

Deka Matsuri
2003

Henri Langlois vu par...
2014

The Ozu Diaries
2025

Mikadroid
1991

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
2007

Wild Life
1997

The Enchantment
1989

The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
1985

The J-Horror Virus
2023

The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
2018

Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito
1987