1. Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic, author, actor, and professor at Tokyo University of the Arts.
17 Facts About Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa studied at Rikkyo University in Tokyo under the guidance of prominent film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, where he began making 8mm films.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa became popular after The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl and The Guard from Underground.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa first achieved international acclaim with his 1997 crime thriller film Cure.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa followed up Cure with a semi-sequel in 1999 with Charisma, a detective film starring Koji Yakusho.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa released Bright Future, starring Tadanobu Asano, Joe Odagiri and Tatsuya Fuji, in 2003.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa followed this with another digital feature, Doppelganger, later the same year.
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In 2005, Kiyoshi Kurosawa returned with Loft, his first love story since Seance.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa has written a novelization of his own film Pulse, as well as a history of horror cinema with Makoto Shinozaki.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the Best Director award at the 8th Rome Film Festival for Seventh Code later that year.
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In 2020, Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the Silver Lion for Best Direction at the 77th Venice International Film Festival for his film Wife of a Spy.
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In December 2023, alongside 50 other filmmakers, Kiyoshi Kurosawa signed an open letter published in Liberation demanding a ceasefire and an end to the killing of civilians amid the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and for a humanitarian corridor into Gaza to be established for humanitarian aid, and the release of hostages.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa's directing style has been compared to those of Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky, though he has never expressly listed those directors as influences.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa has expressed admiration for American film directors such as Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah, Robert Aldrich, Richard Fleischer, and Tobe Hooper.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa met Hasumi in University, where he was one of the few students to finish his course, and credits Hasumi with teaching him that film is worth dedicating your entire life to.
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Hasumi and Kiyoshi Kurosawa believe that every element of the film matters and should be meticulously planned.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa has stated that one of his goals as a filmmaker is to share Hasumi's teachings.