Kurosawa Kiyoshi
KUROSAWA Kiyoshi (1955, Japan) is a film director, screenwriter, film critic, author, actor and a former professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. He started directing 8mm independent films while studying Sociology at Rikkyo University. He is best known for his contributions to psychological horror and Japanese horror, and creates films that often focus on ambiguous narratives and on their characters’ inner turmoils. In 1983, he made his debut with the feature Kandagawa Wars. His international breakthrough came with Cure (1997), which was also shown at IFFR. Tokyo Sonata (2008) won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard programme at Cannes 2008. In 2012, he switched to television with the thriller series Penance. Kurosawa also works as an actor, editor and scriptwriter
Filmography
Shigarami (1981, short), Kandagawa Wars (1983), The Excitement of the do-re-mi-fa Girl (1985), They’re Back (1988), Sweet Home (1989), The Guard from the Underground (1992), Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself 1-4 (1995), Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself 5-6 (1996), Door III (1996), The Revenge 1 & 2 (1997), Cure (1997), Serpent’s Path (1997), Eyes of the Spider (1997), License to Live (1999), Charisma (1999), Barren Illusion (1999), Ko-rei (2000), Kaïro/Pulse (2001), Akarui mirai/Bright Future (2003), Dopperugengâ/Doppelgänger (2003), Umezu Kazuo: Kyôfu gekijô – Mushi-tachi no ie/Kazuo Umezu’s Horror Theater: Bug’s House (2005), Rofuto/Loft (2005), Sakebi/Retrieval (2006), Tokyo Sonata (2008), Shokuzai/Penance (2012, TV), Riaru: Kanzen naru kubinagaryû no hi/Real (2013), Sebunsu kôdo/Seventh Code (2013), Beautiful New Bay Area Project (2013, short), Journey to the Shore (2015), Creepy (2016), Daguerrotype (2016), Before We Vanish (2017), Foreboding (2017), To the Ends of the Earth (2019), Wife of a Spy: Theatrical Edition (2020), Chime (2024), Serpent’s Path (2024), Cloud (2024)
Kurosawa Kiyoshi op IFFR
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! VI: The Hero
Kurosawa Kiyoshi | 83' | Japan | No premiere
A yakuza comedy with a sting in its tail, from one of Japanese cinema’s contemporary masters. -
Retribution
Kurosawa Kiyoshi | 103' | Japan | None
The literal translation of the Japanese title of the film is ‘The Scream’. In the case of Kurusawa Kiyoshi you may think both of the… -
Charisma
Kurosawa Kiyoshi | 103' | Japan | -
Police inspector loses his way in a forest, and how. Surreal and mysterious thriller by international breakthrough Kurosawa Kiyoshi (no relation). -
Barren Illusions
Kurosawa Kiyoshi | 95' | Japan | -
Is love possible in a world where we have freed ourselves from our desires? In this ironic investigation into alienation, Haru and Michi dream of… -
Tokyo Sonata
Kurosawa Kiyoshi | 119' | Hong Kong | None
Kurosawa Kiyoshi, the masterful maker of occasionally dark, always strange films, wanted to make a very ordinary film this time. A film about a man… -
Ko-rei
Kurosawa Kiyoshi | 97' | Japan | -
A misunderstood medium seizes on the kidnapping of a girl to raise his status. A psychological thriller that questions the usual ideas about spiritism -
Penance
Kurosawa Kiyoshi | 270' | Japan | None
Kurosawa, always exploring the boundaries between art-house and genre films, gives us a fascinating TV series about a vengeful mother seeking her daug -
Seventh Code
Kurosawa Kiyoshi | 60' | Japan | None
Low-key crime comedy set in desolate, post-Communist Vladivostok. Japanese businessmen undertake dubious transactions as pop idol Atsuko Maeda (also i -
Cop Festival – Curated by Shinozaki Makoto
Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Shinozaki Makoto, Honda Ryuichi, Tanaka Yoji, Iguchi Noboru, Fujita Hideyuki, Ozawa, Tsuda Kanji | 80' | Japan | -
Japanese film makers each indulged themselves for ten minutes on the genre of the police film. With the assistance of familiar faces and surprising ne
