Kiyoshi Kurosawa
July 19, 1955 · 70 years old
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 qu…
Known For
20 titles
Cure
A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.
Pulse
Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.
Tokyo Sonata
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.
Creepy
Ex-detective Takakura and wife Yasuko face danger as their sinister neighbor Nishino is linked to disappearances and manipulates Yasuko. Themes of trust, trauma, and hidden darkness unfold in this psychological thriller of suburba...
Cloud
Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk.
Retribution
An experienced police detective has to investigate the murder of an unknown woman dressed in a scarlet dress.
Wife of a Spy
A Japanese merchant who leaves his wife behind in order to travel to Manchuria, where he witnesses an act of barbarism. His subsequent actions cause misunderstanding, jealousy and legal problems for his wife.
Chime
A school teacher is woken by a sound that fills him with dread.
Before We Vanish
Three aliens travel to Earth in preparation for a mass invasion, taking possession of human bodies.
To the Ends of the Earth
A young Japanese woman finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.
Daguerrotype
When an assistant to a daguerreotypy photographer falls in love with the latter's daughter the relationship mirrors the art form as love and pain combine.
Serpent's Path
A man enlists a friend to help him identify and exact revenge upon his daughter's murderer.
Eyes of the Spider
A man discovers a darker side of himself after exacting revenge on his daughter's killer.
License to Live
24-year-old Yoshi awakes after 10 years in a coma and goes on to start a new life and rebuild his family.
The Guard from Underground
A woman begins working at the same company as a security guard that she believes might be a former sumo wrestling serial killer.
Foreboding
Something's wrong and Etsuko is one of the first to notice. It's not just the sky that looks different, Etsuko suddenly begins hearing strange noises and an increasing number of inexplicable things are happening around her.
Mr. X, a Vision of Leos Carax
The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure of Leos Carax, in France. Elsewhere, the real focus is on his films and he is c...
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
A tribute from filmmakers and critics around the world to the Taiwan New Cinema movement in the 1980s.
Door III
An ambitious insurance saleswoman is stalked by by the strange and supernatural after meeting a mysterious man named Mitsuru.