Directed credits
56
Prolific
Very extensive directing filmography.
Director
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.7
Moderate attention
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Directed movies: 55Directed series: 1All crew credits: 72
TMDB ID: 26882
IMDb ID: nm0475905
Known for: Directing
Born: July 19, 1955
Age: 70
Place of birth: Kobe, Japan
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1973 - 2025
Years active: 53
Average TMDB rating: 6.6
Wikidata: Q53834
Also known as
黒沢 清 • 구로사와 기요시 • Киёси Куросава • 黑泽清 • Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Frequent jobs
Director (54)Assistant Director (2)Screenplay (6)Writer (5)Teleplay (2)Creative Consultant (1)Original Film Writer (1)Production Assistant (1)
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.
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Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
6.9
Chime
Director
2024 Movie
6.0
Serpent's Path
Director
2024 Movie
6.2
Actually...
Director
2022 Movie
6.7
Wife of a Spy
Director
2020 Movie
6.5
Before We Vanish
Director
2017 Movie
5.6
Daguerrotype
Director
2016 Movie
6.7
Creepy
Director
2016 Movie
6.5
Journey to the Shore
Director
2015 Movie
4.0
Henri Langlois vu par...
Director
2014 Movie
5.8
Seventh Code
Director
2013 Movie
7.3
Penance
Director
2013 Movie
6.0
Beautiful New Bay Area Project
Director
2013 Movie
Beautiful 2013
Director
2013 Movie
Wordholic Prisoner
Director
2012 Movie
7.4
Tokyo Sonata
Director
2008 Movie
6.5
Retribution
Director
2007 Movie
Time Slip
Director
2005 Movie
5.2
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
Director
2005 Movie
Soul Dancing
Director
2004 Movie
7.0
Doppelganger
Director
2003 Movie
6.8
Bright Future
Director
2003 Movie
Deka Matsuri
Director
2003 Movie
6.0
Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp
Director
2003 Movie
School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special
Director
2001 Movie
Series
Directed Series
Series directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Movies
Top Rated Movies
Highest rated movies linked with Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
7.5
Cure
Director
1997 Movie
7.4
Tokyo Sonata
Director
2008 Movie
7.2
Hitchcock/Truffaut
as Self
2015 Movie
6.8
Cloud
Screenplay
2024 Movie
6.8
Ju-on: The Grudge
Creative Consultant
2002 Movie
6.7
Wife of a Spy
Director
2020 Movie
6.7
Creepy
Director
2016 Movie
6.7
Pulse
Director
2001 Movie
6.5
Retribution
Director
2007 Movie
6.5
Before We Vanish
Director
2017 Movie
6.0
Reincarnation
as Professor Kawashima
2005 Movie
5.1
Pulse
Original Film Writer
2006 Movie
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
5.9
Mr. X
as Self
2014 Movie
7.5
Cure
Director
1997 Movie
6.8
Ju-on: The Grudge
Creative Consultant
2002 Movie
6.9
Chime
Director
2024 Movie
6.5
School Ghost Story G
Director
1998 Movie
5.5
Loft
Screenplay
2006 Movie
The Detective Who Can Say No
2003 Movie
6.7
Pulse
Director
2001 Movie
6.8
Cloud
Screenplay
2024 Movie
5.1
Pulse
Original Film Writer
2006 Movie
6.7
Wife of a Spy
Director
2020 Movie
2.5
So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex
Writer
1982 Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
6.8
Cloud
Screenplay
2024 Movie
6.3
To the Ends of the Earth
Writer
2019 Movie
5.7
Foreboding
Teleplay
2017 Movie
6.2
Real
Screenplay
2013 Movie
5.5
Loft
Screenplay
2006 Movie
5.1
Pulse
Original Film Writer
2006 Movie
6.8
Ju-on: The Grudge
Creative Consultant
2002 Movie
7.0
Séance
Teleplay
2000 Movie
5.6
Barren Illusion
Screenplay
1999 Movie
6.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble
Screenplay
1996 Movie
8.0
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot
Screenplay
1996 Movie
5.9
The Guard from Underground
Writer
1992 Movie
2.5
So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex
Writer
1982 Movie
1.7
Wolf: Running Is Sex
Production Assistant
1982 Movie
Series
Other Crew Work in Series
Additional series credits for Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
The Ozu Diaries
as Self
2025 Movie
Les Cuisiniers of Chime
as Self
2024 Movie
7.5
Breakfast of the Movie
2023 Movie
Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
as Himself
2023 Movie
The J-Horror Virus
2023 Movie
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images
as Self
2018 Movie
2.0
The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
2018 Movie
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits
as Himself
2017 Movie
Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images
as Himself
2017 Movie
Terror from the Internet
as Self
2017 Movie
7.2
Hitchcock/Truffaut
as Self
2015 Movie
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2015 Movie
Series
Acting Appearances in Series
Series cast credits for Kiyoshi Kurosawa.