Biography
Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born on 19 July 1955 in Kobe, he studied at Rikkyo University in Tokyo under film critic Shigehiko Hasumi and began making 8mm films while a student. He made his feature debut in 1983 and worked in Japan's pink film and V-cinema industries before achieving wider recognition.
Kurosawa first gained international acclaim with Cure (1997), which he also wrote. He has directed a range of psychological thrillers and dramas, including Pulse (2001), Tokyo Sonata (2008), Creepy (2016), Wife of a Spy (2020) and Cloud (2024). He served as a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts from 2005 to 2023 and is not related to Akira Kurosawa.
