
Director · Screenplay · Writer · Creator · Actor · 21 credits
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.

The Samurai and the Prisoner
2026
Director · Screenplay

Cloud
2024
Director · Screenplay

Chime
2024
Director · Screenplay

Serpent's Path
2024
Director · Writer
Writer · Director

Wife of a Spy
2020
Director · Screenplay

Foreboding: Serial Version
2017
Director

Before We Vanish
2017
Screenplay · Director

Creepy
2016
Director · Screenplay

Penance
2012
Writer · Director · Creator

Tokyo Sonata
2008
Director · Writer

Loft
2006
Director · Screenplay

Reincarnation
2005
Professor Kawashima

Doppelgänger
2003
Director · Screenplay

Bright Future
2003
Writer · Director

Pulse
2001
Man in Internet (uncredited)

Cure
1997
Director · Screenplay

The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
1997
Director · Screenplay

Bumpkin Soup
1985
Writer · Director

The Funeral
1984
Assistant Director

The Man Who Stole the Sun
1979
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