FILM DIRECTOR

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

1955 - Today

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa (黒沢 清, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, born July 19, 1955) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic, author, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kiyoshi Kurosawa has received more than 1,125,438 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Kiyoshi Kurosawa is the 521st most popular film director (down from 497th in 2019), the 771st most popular biography from Japan (down from 734th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Kiyoshi Kurosawa ranks 521 out of 2,041. Before him are Boris Barnet, Mike Leigh, Néstor Almendros, James Wong, Luis García Berlanga, and Claude Autant-Lara. After him are Peter Yates, Seijun Suzuki, Tom Tykwer, Benoît Jacquot, Ulrich Seidl, and Mikhail Romm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Kiyoshi Kurosawa ranks 141. Before him are Matti Vanhanen, Jean-Hugues Anglade, James Gosling, Wang Huning, Laurie Metcalf, and Friedrich Merz. After him are Vladimir Sorokin, Judy Davis, Alberto Tarantini, Khalid al-Islambouli, Kelsey Grammer, and Sándor Puhl.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kiyoshi Kurosawa ranks 771 out of 6,245. Before him are Tadao Kobayashi (1930), Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539), Prince Munetaka (1242), Matsudaira Katamori (1836), Koichi Tanaka (1959), and Shō Hashi (1371). After him are Motoo Tatsuhara (1913), Banana Yoshimoto (1964), Kengo Kuma (1954), Koji Sasaki (1936), Seijun Suzuki (1923), and Daidō Moriyama (1938).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Kiyoshi Kurosawa ranks 25. Before him are Kaneto Shindo (1912), Kon Ichikawa (1915), Takashi Miike (1960), Yoshiyuki Tomino (1941), Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), and Hiroshi Inagaki (1905). After him are Seijun Suzuki (1923), Gorō Miyazaki (1967), Osamu Dezaki (1943), Rintaro (1941), Juzo Itami (1933), and Mamoru Hosoda (1967).

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Filmography

Cure
Director
A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.
Dec 27o 19977.5 / 10
Pulse
Director
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
Feb 3o 20016.6 / 10
Tokyo Sonata
Director
A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.
Sep 27o 20087.4 / 10