Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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.
Known for
- Leçon de Cinéma (2004)
- Pulse (2001)
- Horror's Greatest (2024)
- The Funeral (1984)
- Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007)
- Reincarnation (2005)
- Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
- The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
- Occult (2009)
- Mr. X (2014)
- The J-Horror Virus (2023)
- Henri Langlois vu par... (2014)
- Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home' (1989)
- Stranger (1991)
- Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014)
- Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts (2023)
- Wild Life (1997)
- Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku' (2006)
- Japanese Cinema: New Territories (2011)
- The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers (2018)