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name: "Kiyoshi Kurosawa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kiyoshi-kurosawa"
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imdb_id: "nm0475905"
tmdb_id: 26882
wikidata_id: "Q53834"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "19 July 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T04:34:23.313328+00:00"
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# Kiyoshi Kurosawa

## Identity

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kiyoshi-kurosawa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kiyoshi-kurosawa
- **IMDb ID:** nm0475905
- **TMDB ID:** 26882
- **Wikidata ID:** Q53834
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Kurosawa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53834, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475905/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26882

Director. Born 19 July 1955 in Kobe, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 19 July 1955, Kobe, Japan
- **Also known as:** 黒沢 清, 구로사와 기요시, Киёси Куросава, 黑泽清
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Kurosawa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53834, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475905/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26882

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cure* (1997), Fi1m 85, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/cure.md)

## Complete filmography (106)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Samurai and the Prisoner* (2026), Director, Screenplay
- *Cloud* (2024), Director, Screenplay
- *Chime* (2024), Director, Screenplay
- *Serpent's Path* (2024), Director, Writer
- *Breakfast of the Movie* (2023), Actor
- *The J-Horror Virus* (2023), Actor
- *Modern Love Tokyo* (2022), series, Writer, Director
- *Actually...* (2022), Director
- *Wife of a Spy* (2020), Director, Screenplay
- *To the Ends of the Earth* (2019), Writer, Director
- *The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers* (2018), Actor
- *Foreboding* (2017), Teleplay, Director
- *Foreboding: Serial Version* (2017), series, Director, Teleplay
- *Before We Vanish* (2017), Screenplay, Director
- *Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images* (2017), Thanks
- *Daguerrotype* (2016), Director, Scenario Writer
- *Creepy* (2016), Director, Screenplay
- *Journey to the Shore* (2015), Director, Screenplay
- *Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague* (2015), Actor
- *Henri Langlois vu par...* (2014), Director
- *Seventh Code* (2014), Director, Writer
- *Real* (2013), Director, Screenplay
- *Penance* (2013), Director, Screenplay
- *Beautiful New Bay Area Project* (2013), Director, Screenplay
- *Beautiful 2013* (2013), Director
- *Wordholic Prisoner* (2012), Director
- *Penance* (2012), series, Writer, Director, Creator
- *女優霊の原点・幻のフィルム  『シェラデコブレの幽霊』を探して* (2010), as 自己
- *Tokyo Sonata* (2008), Director, Writer
- *Retribution* (2007), Director, Screenplay
- *Masters of Killing* (2006), Actor
- *What's a Director?* (2006), Actor
- *Loft* (2006), Director, Screenplay
- *Pulse* (2006), Original Film Writer
- *Reincarnation* (2005), as Professor Kawashima
- *Time Slip* (2005), Director
- *Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs* (2005), Director
- *Ghost Cop* (2004), Director
- *Séance* (2004), Director, Teleplay
- *Soul Dancing* (2004), Director, Writer
- *突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験* (2003), Actor
- *Doppelgänger* (2003), Director, Screenplay, Editor
- *3 on 3* (2003), Actor
- *Bright Future* (2003), Editor, Writer, Director
- *The Detective Who Can Say No* (2003), Actor
- *Deka Matsuri* (2003), Director
- *Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp* (2003), Director
- *Ju-on: The Grudge* (2002), Creative Consultant
- *School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special* (2001), Director
- *Pulse* (2001), as Man in Internet (uncredited) · Director, Writer
- *Hanako San* (2001), Director
- *Gore from Outer Space* (2001), Actor
- *Barren Illusion* (1999), Screenplay, Director
- *Charisma* (1999), Director, Screenplay
- *License to Live* (1999), Director, Screenplay
- *School Ghost Story G* (1998), Director
- *Eyes of the Spider* (1998), Director, Screenplay
- *Serpent's Path* (1998), Director
- *Kodama* (1998), Director
- *Cure* (1997), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/cure.md)
- *School Ghost Story F* (1997), Director
- *The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears* (1997), Director, Screenplay
- *Wild Life* (1997), Actor
- *The Revenge: A Visit from Fate* (1997), Director
- *A Haunted School* (1996), as Photography professor
- *Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero* (1996), Director
- *Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Nouveau Riche* (1996), Director, Screenplay
- *Door III* (1996), Director
- *Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble* (1996), Screenplay, Director
- *Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot* (1996), Screenplay, Director
- *Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape* (1995), Director, Screenplay
- *Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist* (1995), Director, Writer
- *Men of Rage* (1994), Director, Writer
- *Yakuza Taxi* (1994), Director, Screenplay
- *The Guard from Underground* (1992), Director, Screenplay
- *Whirlpool of Joy* (1992), Director, Writer
- *Mikadroid* (1991), as Military Police Officer A
- *Stranger* (1991), as Passenger with flowers
- *The Enchantment* (1989), as Librarian
- *Dangerous Stories* (1989), Director, Screenplay
- *Sweet Home* (1989), Director, Writer
- *Tanaka kozue-sei no kageki-ha kyō kara wa binetsu hito* (1987), Actor
- *Bumpkin Soup* (1985), Writer, Director
- *The Legend of the Stardust Brothers* (1985), as Visitor of Salon "Uonome"
- *Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita* (1985), Director
- *The Funeral* (1984), as Assistant Director
- *Kandagawa Pervert Wars* (1983), Director
- *The New Seven Lines Between Things* (1983), Director
- *So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex* (1982), Writer
- *Wolf: Running Is Sex* (1982), Production Assistant
- *The Night Before the Escape* (1982), Director
- *LOSING THE WAY* (1982), as Yakuza
- *Sailor Suit and Machine Gun* (1981), Assistant Director
- *Vertigo College* (1980), Manager, Director
- *All Girls Are Twins* (1980), Actor
- *The Man Who Stole the Sun* (1979), as Suspect on TV News · Assistant Director
- *School Days* (1978), Director
- *SCHOOL SOUNDS* (1978), Actor
- *Fangs Crazy for White Skin* (1977), as Narrator (voice) · Director
- *West Wind* (1977), as Bazin
- *The Flashing Signal* (1976), Director
- *Record of Indefinite Travel* (1976), Director
- *Teacher of Violence: Massacre in Broad Daylight* (1975), Director
- *Rokkô* (1973), Director
- *Making of Charisma*, Actor
- *Pulse*, Original Film Writer

## Gallery

- ![Kiyoshi Kurosawa, director of 'Cloud', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/5692870/gallery-1bcd301bac1b.jpg) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, director of 'Cloud', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Kiyoshi_Kurosawa_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Kiyoshi Kurosawa, director of 'Cloud', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/5692870/gallery-1ce2a6738ba1.jpg) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, director of 'Cloud', at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Kiyoshi_Kurosawa_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_2.jpg/1280px-Kiyoshi_Kurosawa_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa at the "Tokyo Sonata" Q&A, Toronto International Film Festival 2008](https://film.one/media/person/5692870/gallery-a07b1d0d2fd1.jpg) Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa at the "Tokyo Sonata" Q&A, Toronto International Film Festival 2008 — Bryan Chan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Kiyoshi_Kurosawa_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![P3090159 (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/5692870/gallery-1d879ab4ba2b.jpg) P3090159 (2012) — Tonio Vega from Paris (France), France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Kiyoshi_Kurosawa_in_March_2012.jpg/1280px-Kiyoshi_Kurosawa_in_March_2012.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kiyoshi Kurosawa](https://film.one/media/person/5692870/gallery-632395ff7d0b.jpg) Kiyoshi Kurosawa — Image via TMDB
- ![Kiyoshi Kurosawa](https://film.one/media/person/5692870/gallery-77574cbb69cb.jpg) Kiyoshi Kurosawa — Image via TMDB
- ![Kiyoshi Kurosawa](https://film.one/media/person/5692870/gallery-bfaada88f59b.jpg) Kiyoshi Kurosawa — Image via TMDB
- ![Director Kurosawa Kiyoshi contemplates a question from the audience at the "Tokyo Sonata" Q&A. (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/5692870/gallery-ab2fac59d94f.jpg) Director Kurosawa Kiyoshi contemplates a question from the audience at the "Tokyo Sonata" Q&A. (2008) — Bryan Chan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Kurosawa_Kiyoshi.jpg/1280px-Kurosawa_Kiyoshi.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kiyoshi Kurosawa durant sa masterclass à la Cinémathèque française en mars 2023.](https://film.one/media/person/5692870/gallery-95051d308ce4.jpg) Kiyoshi Kurosawa durant sa masterclass à la Cinémathèque française en mars 2023. — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Kiyoshi_Kurosawa_2023.jpg/1280px-Kiyoshi_Kurosawa_2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kiyoshi Kurosawa](https://film.one/media/person/5692870/gallery-ab523027d57d.jpg) Kiyoshi Kurosawa — Image via TMDB
- ![Kiyoshi Kurosawa](https://film.one/media/person/5692870/gallery-19fff8451fc3.jpg) Kiyoshi Kurosawa — Image via TMDB
- ![Kiyoshi Kurosawa](https://film.one/media/person/5692870/gallery-2eb0785f0269.jpg) Kiyoshi Kurosawa — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Medal with Purple Ribbon 2021: Medal with Purple Ribbon (won)
- Time Machine Award 2006: Time Machine Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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