
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director·b. 1955·Kobe, Japan
30 horror credits
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.
Director21 films

Cloud
Director

Chime
Director

Daguerrotype
Director

Creepy
Director

Retribution
Director

Loft
Director

Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
Director

Doppelgänger
Director

School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special
Director

Pulse
Director

Hanako San
Director

Séance
Director

School Ghost Story G
Director

Kodama
Director

Cure
Director

School Ghost Story F
Director

Door III
Director

The Guard from Underground
Director
Dangerous Stories
Director

Sweet Home
Director
Fangs Crazy for White Skin
Director
Writer13 films

Cloud
Screenplay

Chime
Screenplay

Creepy
Screenplay

Retribution
Screenplay

Loft
Screenplay

Pulse
Original Film Writer

Doppelgänger
Screenplay

Pulse
Writer

Séance
Teleplay

Cure
Screenplay

The Guard from Underground
Screenplay
Dangerous Stories
Screenplay

Sweet Home
Writer
Editor1 film

Doppelgänger
Editor
Actor9 films

Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
Himself

The J-Horror Virus

Occult
Self

Reincarnation
Professor Kawashima

Pulse
Man in Internet (uncredited)

Gore from Outer Space

A Haunted School
Photography professor

Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
Military Police Officer A
Fangs Crazy for White Skin
Narrator (voice)
Other Crew2 films

Daguerrotype
Scenario Writer

Ju-on: The Grudge
Creative Consultant