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.
Awards & recognition
- Medal with Purple Ribbon · 2021
- Time Machine Award · 2006
Filmography27 titles
Penance
Cure
Tokyo Sonata
Penance
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
The Funeral
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Doppelganger
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Bright Future
Ju-on: The Grudge
Modern Love Tokyo
Cloud
Wife of a Spy
Creepy
Pulse
Before We Vanish
Journey to the Shore
Retribution
To the Ends of the Earth
Horror's Greatest
Reincarnation
Loft
Daguerrotype
Pulse
The J-Horror Virus