Highest rated as cast or director
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.
Directed 68
2020s
- 2026
- 2024
- 2022
Actually...
Director
- 2020
2010s
- 2019
- 2017
Foreboding
Director
Foreboding: Serial Version
Director
- 2016
Daguerrotype
Director
- 2015
- 2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
Director
- 2013
Real
Director
Penance
Director
Beautiful New Bay Area Project
Director
Beautiful 2013
Director
- 2012
Wordholic Prisoner
Director
2000s
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
Time Slip
Director
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
Director
- 2004
Soul Dancing
Director
- 2003
Doppelgänger
Director
Bright Future
Director
Deka Matsuri
Director
Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp
Director
- 2001
School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special
Director
Hanako San
Director
1990s
- 1999
Barren Illusion
Director
- 1998
School Ghost Story G
Director
Kodama
Director
- 1997
School Ghost Story F
Director
The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
Director
The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
Director
- 1996
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero
Director
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche
Director
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble
Director
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot
Director
- 1995
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
Director
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Director
- 1994
Men of Rage
Director
Yakuza Taxi
Director
- 1992
Whirlpool of Joy
Director
1980s
- 1989
Sweet Home
Director
- 1985
- 1983
Kandagawa Pervert Wars
Director
The New Seven Lines Between Things
Director
- 1982
The Night Before the Escape
Director
- 1981
- 1980
Vertigo College
Director
1970s
- 1979
- 1978
School Days
Director
- 1973
Rokkô
Director
Wrote 46
2020s
- 2026
- 2024
- 2022
- 2020
2010s
- 2019
- 2017
Foreboding
Teleplay
Foreboding: Serial Version
Teleplay
- 2016
Daguerrotype
Scenario Writer
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
Real
Screenplay
Penance
Screenplay
Beautiful New Bay Area Project
Screenplay
- 2012
2000s
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
- 2004
Soul Dancing
Writer
- 2003
Doppelgänger
Screenplay
Bright Future
Writer
- 2001
1990s
- 1999
Barren Illusion
Screenplay
- 1998
- 1997
The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
Screenplay
- 1996
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche
Screenplay
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble
Screenplay
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot
Screenplay
- 1995
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
Screenplay
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Writer
- 1994
Men of Rage
Writer
Yakuza Taxi
Screenplay
- 1992
Whirlpool of Joy
Writer
1980s
- 1989
Sweet Home
Writer
- 1985
- 1983
Kandagawa Pervert Wars
Screenplay
- 1982
So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex
Writer
Acted in 29
2020s
- 2023
Breakfast of the Movie
Movie
The J-Horror Virus
Movie
2010s
- 2018
- 2015
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
Movie
- 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
自己
2000s
- 2006
Masters of Killing
Movie
What's a Director?
Movie
- 2005
- 2003
突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験
Movie
3 on 3
Movie
Deka Matsuri
Movie
The Detective Who Can Say No
Movie
- 2001
Gore from Outer Space
Movie
1990s
- 1997
- 1996
A Haunted School
Photography professor
- 1991
Mikadroid
Military Police Officer A
Stranger
Passenger with flowers
1980s
- 1989
The Enchantment
Librarian
- 1987
Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito
Movie
- 1985
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
- 1984
The Funeral
Assistant Director
- 1982
LOSING THE WAY
Yakuza
- 1980
Vertigo College
Manager
All Girls Are Twins
Movie
1970s
- 1979
- 1978
SCHOOL SOUNDS
Movie
- 1977
West Wind
Bazin
No release date
Making of Charisma
Movie
Edited 2
2000s
- 2003
Doppelgänger
Editor
Bright Future
Editor
Other crew 1
2000s
- 2002
Produced 1
1980s
- 1982
Wolf: Running Is Sex
Production Assistant
Created 1
2010s
- 2012
Appearances23
2020s
- 2025
The Ozu Diaries
Self
- 2024
Horror's Greatest
Self - Director, Cure · 1 episode
Les Cuisiniers of Chime
Self
- 2023
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
Himself
- 2022
No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation
Self
2010s
- 2018
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images
Self
- 2017
Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images
Himself
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits
Self
Terror from the Internet
Self
- 2015
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Self
- 2014
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
- 2011
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
Self
2000s
- 2009
Occult
Self
- 2007
Les fantômes de Kiyoshi
Self
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Self
- 2006
Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
self
- 2004
Pink Ribbon
Self
- 2003
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Himself
1990s
- 1999
Making Of Charisma
Self
1980s
- 1989
Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
Self
Thanked in the credits1
2010s
- 2017
Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images
Thanks