Kiyoshi Kurosawa

• Japanese director born in Kobe in 1955.

  Kiyoshi Kurosawa directed his first short films in Super 8 when he was a sociology student. He started to direct commercial films in 1983.
  He directed many video films (or direct-to-video), before the presentation of CURE (1997) abroad earned him international recognition. He subsequently directed around thirty films, including Pulse (2000), Jellyfish (2002), Retribution (2006) and Tokyo Sonata (2008).
  In 2011, his television series Shokuzai was widely acclaimed.
  He currently teaches at the Tokyo University of the Arts. His latest film, Journey to the Shore won the Best Director Award in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

• Kandagawa wars (神田川淫乱戦争, Kandagawa inran sensô) (1983) – The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (ドレミファ娘の血は騒ぐ, Do Re Mi Fa musume no chi ha sawagu) (1985) – Sweet Home (スウィートホーム, Suîto hômu) (1988) – The Guard from the Underground (地獄の警備員, jigoku no keibi in) (1991) – DOOR III (1996) – Cure (キュア, Kyua) (1997) – License to live (ニンゲン合格, Ningen gôkaku) (1998) – Charisma (カリスマ, Karisuma) (1999) – Barren Illusions (大いなる幻影, Ooi naru gen.ei) (1999) – Seance (降霊, Kôrei) (1999) – Kaïro (回路, Kairo) (2000) – Jellyfish (アカルイミライ, Akarui mirai) (2002) – Doppelganger (ドッペルゲンガー, Dopperugengâ) (2002) - LOFT (ロフト, Rofuto) (2005) - Retribution (叫, Sakebi) (2006) – Tokyo Sonata (トウキョウソナタ) (2008)  – Shokuzai (贖罪) (2011) – Real (リアル～完全なる首長竜の日～, Riaru: Kanzen naru kubinagaryû no hi) (2013) – Seventh Code (セブンスコード, Sebunsu kôdo) (2013) – Journey To The Shore (岸辺の旅, Kishibe no tabi) – Creepy (Kurîpî: Itsuwari no rinjin) (2016) – Daguerrotype (2016) – Before We Vanish (Sanpo suru shinryakusha) (2017) – Wife of a Spy (スパイの妻) (2020)