Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Kurosawa Kiyoshi

  • Name: Kurosawa Kiyoshi
  • Native name: 黒沢清
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: July 19, 1955
  • Age: 69
Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Although he has worked in a variety of genres, Kurosawa is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre.

Kurosawa's directing style has been compared to that of Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky, though he has never expressly listed those directors as influences. Nevertheless, he admitted in an interview that Alfred Hitchcock and Yasujirou Ozu features analyzed and discussed under the guidance of Shigehiko Hasumi contributed to shape his personal vision of the medium. He also expressed admiration for American film directors such as Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah, Robert Aldrich, Richard Fleischer, and Tobe Hooper.

In a 2009 interview with IFC, Kurosawa talked about the reason why he has cast the actor Koji Yakusho in many of his films: "He has similar values and sensitivities. We’re from the same generation. That’s a big reason why I enjoy working with him on the set."

According to Tim Palmer, Kurosawa's films occupy a peculiar position between the materials of mass genre, on the one hand, and esoteric or intellectual abstraction, on the other. They also clearly engage with issues of environmental critique, given Kurosawa's preference for shooting in decaying open spaces, abandoned (and often condemned) buildings, and in places rife with toxins, pestilence and entropy Edit Biography
Director
Year Title Type Rating
2022 Modern Love Tokyo
Drama
7.5
2005 Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Bug's House
Movie
6.2
1998 Serpent's Path
Movie
7.0
1997 The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
Movie
6.4
1996 Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero
Movie
0.0
1996 Door III
Movie
8.0
Screenwriter & Director
Year Title Type Rating
2024 Cloud
Movie
7.1
2024 Serpent's Path
Movie
6.1
2024 Chime
Movie
6.5
2020 Wife of a Spy
Movie
7.5
2019 To the Ends of the Earth
Movie
7.0
2017 Yochou Sanpo Suru Shinryakusa
Drama
7.0
2017 Before We Vanish
Movie
7.1
2016 Creepy
Movie
7.0
2015 Journey to the Shore
Movie
6.8
2014 Seventh Code
Movie
6.1
2013 Real
Movie
7.2
2013 Beautiful New Bay Area Project
Movie
6.0
2012 Shokuzai
Drama
7.2
2008 Tokyo Sonata
Movie
7.4
2007 Retribution
Movie
6.8
2005 Loft
Movie
6.2
2003 Doppelganger
Movie
7.2
2003 Bright Future
Movie
7.1
2001 Seance
Movie
6.7
2001 Pulse
Movie
7.0
2000 Charisma
Movie
7.2
1999 Barren Illusions
Movie
7.1
1998 License to Live
Movie
7.4
1998 Eyes of the Spider
Movie
6.7
1997 Cure
Movie
7.7
1996 Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche
Movie
0.0
1996 Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble
Movie
0.0
1996 Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot
Movie
0.0
1995 Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
Movie
2.0
1995 Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Movie
0.0
1994 Yakuza Taxi
Movie
6.5
1992 The Guard from the Underground
Movie
6.4
1989 Abunai Hanashi: Mugen Monogatari
Movie
2.0
1989 Sweet Home
Movie
6.8
1985 Bumpkin Soup
Movie
6.1
1983 Kandagawa Wars
Movie
6.2
Movie
Year Title Role Rating
2023 Eiga no Asa Gohan
Japanese Movie, 2023,
(Guest Role)
Guest Role
0.0
2014 Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Taiwanese Movie, 2014,
(Main Role)
Main Role
7.0
2009 Occult
Japanese Movie, 2009,
Himself (Support Role)
Himself
Support Role
6.8
2006 Reincarnation
Japanese Movie, 2006,
Professor Kawashima (Support Role)
Professor Kawashima
Support Role
6.9
2003 3on3
Japanese Movie, 2003,
(Guest Role)
Guest Role
0.0
2003 Ambivalent Future: Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Japanese Movie, 2003,
(Main Role)
Main Role
0.0
2001 Gore From Outer Space
Japanese Movie, 2001,
[Newspaper deliveryman] (Bit part)
[Newspaper deliveryman]
Bit part
6.0
1996 Bourei Gakkyu
Japanese Movie, 1996,
[Professor] (Support Role)
[Professor]
Support Role
7.0
1991 Mikadroid
Japanese Movie, 1991,
(Support Role)
Support Role
5.8
1989 The Enchantment
Japanese Movie, 1989,
[Librarian] (Guest Role)
[Librarian]
Guest Role
7.7
1979 The Man Who Stole the Sun
Japanese Movie, 1979,
[Suspect on TV news] (Bit part)
[Suspect on TV news]
Bit part
7.7
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Kurosawa Kiyoshi

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  • First Name: Kiyoshi
  • Family Name: Kurosawa
  • Native name: 黒沢清
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: July 19, 1955
  • Age: 69

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