Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Pulse

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

Release Date2001-02-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Man in Internet (uncredited)

Vote Count627

Reincarnation

A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.

Release Date2005-10-27

Charactersd Professor Kawashima

Vote Count146

The Man Who Stole the Sun

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.

Release Date1979-10-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Charactersd Suspect on TV News

Vote Count35

The Funeral

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.

Release Date1984-11-17

Charactersd Assistant Director

Vote Count47

Stranger

After serving time for bank fraud, Kiriko now lives a quiet life as a taxi driver working night shifts... but her peace is shattered by a relentless stalker in a Land Cruiser.

Release Date1991-02-08

Charactersd Passenger with flowers

Vote Count3

The Legend of the Stardust Brothers

A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers, a girl-friendly, silver-jumpsuited, synth-pop sensation. Along with their #1 fan, who herself dreams of a music career, the duo rockets to stardom.

Release Date1985-06-15

Charactersd Visitor of Salon "Uonome"

Vote Count26

The Enchantment

A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation...

Release Date1989-10-29

Charactersd Librarian

Vote Count3

Deka Matsuri

12-part omnibus made under the rules: "the main character is a detective" "at least one gag per minute" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes"

Release Date2003-01-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Initially, Ambivalent Future was intended as a film about the production of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Bright Future". But director Fujii has taken the "behind the scenes"-concept to unprecedented heights with this unique documentary offering a close look into the world of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the auteur. Scenes from the surprisingly low key and relaxed production of "Bright Future" are of course sprinkled liberally throughout the documentary, but between these we are treated to interesting and revealing interviews with actors, producers and Kurosawa's many other collaborators. And perhaps the most surprising thing of all is how much of Kurosawa there is, talking candidly about his working methods and the philosophy behind it all.

Release Date2003-02-08

Charactersd Himself

Kaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts

An exploration of the spirit world as portrayed in the height of the J-horror era of the late ‘90s.

Release Date2023-10-12

Charactersd Himself

Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Broken Circuits

An interview with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa discussing his work in the horror genre from his V-cinema days to his 2001 released film Pulse

Release Date2017-07-17

Charactersd Himself

LOSING THE WAY

Release Date1982-01-01

Charactersd Yakuza

Fangs Crazy for White Skin

Release Date1977-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Narrator (voice)

West Wind

A woman searching for the truth behind the death of her lover visits Bazin, Godard, and Mekas.

Release Date1977-01-01

Charactersd Bazin

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

Release Date2010-11-26

Charactersd 自己

Vote Count1

Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla

During World War II, the Japanese military established a secret underground laboratory in Tokyo. Three Olympic-level athletes were selected to undergo a process that would turn them into Jinra-go, superhuman armored soldiers. By March 1945, one of the soldiers had been completely transformed into the half man/half machine ultimate soldier called Mikadroid. But American B-29s firebomb the city and, while the two super soldiers manage to escape, Mikadroid and the lab are apparently destroyed. 45 years pass, Tokyo is rebuilt, and old secrets are forgotten. The site is now home to a complex that includes the Discoclub Layla. The disco’s patrons dance late into the night, unaware that a faulty basement generator has reactivated Mikadroid and the cyborg now prowls the basement levels, killing anyone in its path...

Release Date1991-07-10

Charactersd Military Police Officer A

Vote Count8

Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'

A new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, Jigoku. Featuring exclusive interview with Nakagawa collaborators.

Release Date2006-09-19

Charactersd self

Vote Count1

Vertigo College

At the beginning of the film, we are presented with an ordinary story. It is the story of a student organization's internal struggle. The story begins with the protagonist taking a briefcase and the organization taking it back, along with his woman. The man who brings back the bag faces the woman. The room is somehow symmetrical. The room is somehow left-right symmetrical, with a low angle and fixed screen as in the Ozu style.

Release Date1980-05-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Manager

Junichiro Hayashi: Creepy Images

An interview with cinematographer Junichiro Hayashi speaking about his work with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Release Date2017-07-17

Charactersd Himself

Mr. X

The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure of Leos Carax, in France. Elsewhere, the real focus is on his films and he is considered to be an icon of world cinema. Mr.X dives into the poetic and visionary world of an artist who was already a cult figure from his very first film. Punctuated by interviews and unseen footage, this documentary is most of all a fine-tuned exploration of the poetic and visionary world of Leos Carax, alias "Mr.X".

Release Date2014-01-20

Charactersd Self

Vote Count9

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.

Release Date2015-09-05

Charactersd Self

Vote Count246

Henri Langlois vu par...

Thirteen filmmakers share personal reflections on Henri Langlois—the visionary founder of the Cinémathèque Française—recounting his influence on their lives, his role in preserving film history, and his enduring impact on world cinema.

Release Date2014-07-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Horror's Greatest

A deep dive into everything we love about horror — from fresh looks at classics to unearthing scores of hidden gems, this series has something for every fright film enthusiast.

Release Date2024-08-27

Charactersd Self - Director, Cure

Episode Count1

Vote Count9

Occult

Koji Shiraishi interviews the survivors of an indiscriminate attack at a sightseeing resort and starts investigating the strange events that have been happening to them.

Release Date2009-03-21

Charactersd Self

Vote Count68

Leçon de Cinéma

Release Date2004-03-20

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Pink Ribbon

Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore pornography in this extensive examination of the "pinku eiga" genre (ピンク映画 Pinku eiga or Pinkeiga). For more than 40 years, so-called "pink" films have served as both a key source of revenue for the Japanese film industry as well as a launching pad for the careers of such mainstream filmmakers as Kiyoshi Kurosawa. After providing a detailed history of the still-profitable and popular genre through interviews with a variety of behind-the-scenes players and clips from such classic pink films as Fish Bait Boobies, director Fujii shifts his focus to the production of an upcoming pink film to offer a glimpse into the creative and stylistic evolution of the genre.

Release Date2004-09-27

Charactersd Self

Vote Count4

The Ozu Diaries

Unveiling Yasujiro Ozu’s legacy through his personal diaries, letters, and interviews, the documentary delves into his life, creative process, and lasting impact on filmmaking.

Release Date2025-09-02

Charactersd Self

Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'

Release Date1989-04-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Les Cuisiniers of Chime

Documentary on the creation of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's film "Chime"

Release Date2024-06-14

Charactersd Self

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share it with the world. This engaging documentary looks at the movement's legacy.

Release Date2014-10-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count17

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films for RKO Studios. Raised by his mother and his aunt, his films often included strong female characters who find themselves in difficult situations and who have to grow up quickly. He is best remembered for the horror films he made at RKO starting in 1940. Starting with only a title - his first was The Cat People - he would meticulously oversee every aspect of the film's completion. Although categorized as horror films, his films never showed a monster, leaving it all to the viewers imagination, assisted by music, mood and lighting.

Release Date2007-09-02

Charactersd Self

Vote Count18

Terror from the Internet

Documentary on the film "Pulse"

Release Date2017-07-10

Charactersd Self

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, au dos des images

At the invitation of Limosin and Bergala, Kiyoshi Kurosawa rediscovers his own films, first during the shooting of his French film in Paris and then in Tokyo. From his first militant films in Super 8 to his undisputed masterpieces, the Japanese director confides his obsessions, his repulsions, his deliciously heterogeneous tastes as a film buff, his pleasures and his fears as a filmmaker.

Release Date2018-11-22

Charactersd Self

Japanese Cinema: New Territories

This documentary by Hubert Niogret looks at the revival of Japanese cinema during the 1990s.

Release Date2011-03-25

Charactersd Self

No Boundaries: A Cure Conversation

Conversation between director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi, recorded in 2020.

Release Date2020-01-01

Charactersd Self

Cure

A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.

Release Date1997-12-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count707

Cloud

Ryōsuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle.

Release Date2024-09-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count78

School Ghost Story F

A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of three stories : Rei Video & Hoken-shitsu by Hideo Nakata and Haiko Kidan by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

Release Date1997-07-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Ju-on: The Grudge

When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.

Release Date2002-10-18

DepartmentCrew

JobCreative Consultant

Vote Count885

Loft

A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly discovered mummy and a ghostly presence in her house.

Release Date2006-09-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count38

Yakuza Taxi

The Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt.

Release Date1994-11-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears

Second half of the violent tale of revenge from actor Sho Aikawa and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa! It's been five years since he left the force, lost his wife, and waged all out revenge, and now our hero is idling his time with a failing yakuza group. When he discovers the secret of one of his superiors, he takes up the gun of vengeance and realizes that his life has only been to serve that purpose.

Release Date1997-05-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

The Revenge: A Visit from Fate

Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. And the criminals he pursues turn out to be as imperfect and oddly human as he is-and just as determined to protect their own families.

Release Date1997-03-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Chime

A chef's life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.

Release Date2024-08-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count69

Actually...

Nakanishi Aruno is disliked and bullied by other Nogizaka46 members because she's different from them. After one of them lock Aruno and tell her to not come back, she decides to come back definitely.

Release Date2022-03-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Tokyo Sonata

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.

Release Date2008-09-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count264

Creepy

After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police force and takes up a position as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. But his desire to get to the bottom of criminals’ motives remains, and he does not hesitate long when former colleague Nogami asks him to reopen an old case.

Release Date2016-06-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count208

Penance

The murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is distraught when the classmates her daughter was playing with all claim not to remember the identity of the killer. In her anger, she puts a curse on them.

Release Date2012-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count18

Pulse

When the dead discover a means to contact the living through electronic devices, cellphones and computers become open gateways to monstrosities and destruction.

Release Date2006-08-11

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count567

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

Release Date1981-12-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count56

School Ghost Story G

A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of four stories, two of which serving as prequels to the Ju-on series.

Release Date1998-09-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count13

Serpent's Path

With the help of a mysterious acquaintance, a former low-level yakuza member tracks down and kidnaps the man he believes kidnapped and murdered his daughter, but others are soon implicated in the death.

Release Date1998-02-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

Bright Future

Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.

Release Date2003-01-18

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count52

Bumpkin Soup

A country girl visits Tokyo in search of her college heartthrob. Here she meets horny students, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame, and Yoshioka who has become a campus nobody.

Release Date1985-11-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count13

Serpent's Path

A mysterious woman teams up with a man whose daughter was killed and who is now seeking revenge. Together they kidnap members of an organization and torture them to find out what really happened.

Release Date2024-06-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count23

Séance

A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by working with the police as a psychic consultant to "find" the girl. And then, things start to go terribly wrong.

Release Date2000-08-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count49

Before We Vanish

Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally different person, and he is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered, when an unexplained phenomenon takes place.

Release Date2017-09-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count94

Charisma

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering a peculiar tree called Charisma.

Release Date1999-11-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count50

Modern Love Tokyo

This seven-episode anthology features a cast of leading actors and depicts various forms of "love," such as love almost forgotten, love between sons and mothers, and love that transcends borders.

Release Date2022-10-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count18

To the Ends of the Earth

A young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.

Release Date2019-06-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count58

Kandagawa Pervert Wars

Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one of the young women ends up falling in love with the son despite having a boyfriend and enjoying sex with her female companion. Of course, the mother they are warring against has her own plans when she feels her privacy invaded.

Release Date1983-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count13

Retribution

A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points toward the detective as the prime suspect, a ghost in red follows him, and he begins to question his identity. His realization of what seems to have really happened results in something much more sinister and larger in scope, and it leaves his psyche scarred.

Release Date2007-02-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count99

Sweet Home

A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife.

Release Date1989-01-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count36

Journey to the Shore

Mizuki's husband Yusuke has been missing for three years. He suddenly comes back home as a ghost and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip consists of visiting the people that helped Yusuke on his previous travel.

Release Date2015-09-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count69

Penance

The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.

Release Date2013-05-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count41

Real

Neurosurgeon Koichi uses an experimental technique to enter the brain of his beloved Atsumi, who is in a coma after attempting suicide. In his quest, Koichi drifts steadily further into the sweltering marshes of the spirit. It is soon no longer clear what is real and what is not.

Release Date2013-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count66

The Guard from Underground

A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.

Release Date1992-06-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count17

License to Live

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.

Release Date1999-01-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

Eyes of the Spider

After killing the man he believes murdered his daughter, a white-collar worker returns to his mundane life, until he is approached by a man who offers him a mysterious job opportunity.

Release Date1998-04-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count20

Doppelganger

Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer on the verge of a breakthrough in medical technology is confronted by his own.

Release Date2003-09-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count45

Foreboding

Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father there. Etsuko becomes worried about Miyuki's state of mind, and she takes Miyuki to the psychiatric hospital where her husband, Tatsuo, works. There, Miyuki receives a diagnosis that she lacks the concept of "family." Later, Etsuko tells Tatsuo that she is not comfortable with Dr. Jirō Makabe. Tatsuo introduced her to Dr. Makabe earlier at the hospital. Etsuko has a feeling of unease about her husband working with Dr. Makabe. One day, Etsuko hears Dr. Makabe state "I came to Earth to invade."

Release Date2017-11-11

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Vote Count15

Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita

Release Date1985-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Barren Illusion

In a near future where allergies have become an epidemic, music producer Haru half-heartedly dates post office clerk and mail thief Michi. He searches for violent ways to reactivate his life, she dreams of escaping abroad; both volunteer to test a new drug which may provide a cure.

Release Date1999-12-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count14

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! II: The Escape

Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.

Release Date1995-08-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Wolf: Running Is Sex

A serial rapist's violent daily routine is disrupted when a disaffected young woman who shares his primal lifestyle begins living with him.

Release Date1982-11-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Assistant

Vote Count3

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! VI: The Hero

Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.

Release Date1996-09-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Beautiful New Bay Area Project

While inspecting a wharf, young Amano, president of an urban planning company, meets beautiful laborer Takako and falls in love at first sight. However, she does not return his affections, so he steals her ID card and goes on the run from the infuriated Takako.

Release Date2013-03-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! I: The Heist

Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.

Release Date1995-04-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Men of Rage

The second installment of a V-Cinema sports drama, directed by Kurosawa in 1994, following "打鐘" (Dakan) from 1993, which was based on Yamamoto's manga and directed by Komatsu Takashi. While there is no direct narrative connection between the two films, they share thematic similarities. The protagonist, Wataru Tachibana, a self-destructive yet genius keirin cyclist, is once again passionately portrayed by Nishimura. This time, Wataru fiercely competes against a rival known as the "Prince of Keirin," who is also the heir of a powerful conglomerate. Kurosawa directs with intense and dramatic storytelling, capturing the protagonist’s burning determination.

Release Date1994-12-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs

A married couple living in a house that seems to be inhabited by supernatural beings and beetles. The first of six movies in the Kazuo Umezz's Horror Theater.

Release Date2005-06-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count13

Wordholic Prisoner

A wordholic man, acting as the chief editor by a certain publishing company, is confined by the writer who wishes to publish.

Release Date2012-04-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

School Days

Release Date1978-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! IV: The Gamble

Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.

Release Date1996-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

School Ghost Story: Mononoke Special

"Kaibyo Densetsu" - Maki (Chizuru Ikewaki), who finds it strange that her best friend appears as a living spirit, goes to check on her. "Nanika ga Tsuite iru" - (Atsushi Itô) performs at a live concert under the direction of a female teacher who appears in front of him, and learns the truth behind the mysterious incident. "Hanako-san" - In order to escape from the curse of Sakurako, who committed suicide because of them, a former member of the newspaper club and his friends begin the Hanako-san ritual.

Release Date2001-03-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! III: The Loot

Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and a dirty cop are determined to find.

Release Date1996-02-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Foreboding: Serial Version

Something’s wrong and Etsuko is one of the first to notice. It’s not just the sky that looks different, Etsuko suddenly begins hearing strange noises, and an increasing number of inexplicable things are happening around her.

Release Date2017-09-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count1

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! V: The Nouveau Riche

A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.

Release Date1996-09-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Dangerous Stories

Three stories with horror and science fiction elements. 1st episode: "The Curse of Tutankhamen" (Tsutankâmen no noroï) by Kazuyuki Izutsu. With Naoto Takenaka. Two clans of Yakuza clash in a bar. 2nd episode: "They came back, tonight too" (Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. With Renji Ishibashi. A polar writer is pursued by two mysterious mountebanks. 3rd episode: "I want to come back to this day" (Ano hi ni kaeritai) by Banmei Takahashi. With Toshiyuki Nagashima. A couple who robbed a bank decides to separate to escape the police.

Release Date1989-07-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Wife of a Spy

It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect he’s up to something. Soon she allows herself to be drawn into a game in which she enigmatically conceals her intentions.

Release Date2020-10-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count98

The New Seven Lines Between Things

An anthology film by eight members of Parodious Unity.

Release Date1983-07-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ghost Cop

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s contribution to the omnibus film Cop Festival / Deka Matsuri, also presented independently as a standalone short.

Release Date2004-07-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Night Before the Escape

Release Date1982-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Hanako San

Short film directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi as part of the 学校の怪談物の怪スペシャル series centered around the legend of Hanako san.

Release Date2001-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Time Slip

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's segment from 'A Story of Love, Wonder and Horror.'

Release Date2005-10-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Soul Dancing

Soul Dancing is an order placed to Kiyoshi Kurosawa by a Japanese alcoholic beverage brand named Shôchu. The director then uses this cine-commercial as an excuse to film a weird fable on the arrival of a stranger in a bloodless human community.

Release Date2004-03-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Whirlpool of Joy

The second TV series by Kiyoshi Kurosawa made just after the pop of the economic bubble in Japan. His comical (and melodic...) analysis of Japanese society corresponds to Godard's films about French society in the 60s.

Release Date1992-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Flashing Signal

Release Date1976-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Rokkô

Release Date1973-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Door III

Miyako is a frustrated insurance saleswoman stuck in a major dry spell. She tries every trick in the book, including aggressive flirting, which gets her plenty of gropers but no buyers. One day while venturing down a narrow stairwell, she injures her ankle and happens upon Mitsuru who works for some mysterious foreign company. Decked out in high goth style -- complete with long inky black hair and mascaraed eyes -- Mitsuru cuts quite an odd figure, yet his seductive though menacing ways make him difficult for Miyako to resist. Escorting her to his office to treat her ankle, Miyako notices that his all-female staff seem more glassy-eyed and soul-deadened than the average office workers. In fact, they seem almost like zombies. Later, weird things start happening. Mitsuko finds vomit on her doorstep, she seems to be tailed by a shadowy woman in a red dress, and most strikingly, she finds herself utterly powerless against Mitsuru's advances.

Release Date1996-04-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

Record of Indefinite Travel

Release Date1976-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kodama

Japanese horror movie from 1998. (Kiyoshi Kurosawa's segment for School Ghost Story G).

Release Date1998-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Daguerrotype

An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.

Release Date2016-10-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count48

Seventh Code

Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. Akiko finally finds Matsunaga. However, he leaves her again, warning her not to trust strangers in a foreign country. She tries to follow him, but she is attacked by thugs and dumped on the outskirts of town.

Release Date2013-11-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count30

Teacher of Violence: Massacre in Broad Daylight

Release Date1975-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Matasaburo the Wind Imp

Each year, at the start of the fall school year in September, Japan suffers from typhoons. That same month, in a small elementary school in a mountainous region, Saburô, a new red-haired pupil has just arrived with the wind. The children of the village thought they recognized in this strange boy who came from the city the spirit that they called “Matasaburô, the wind”. During two weeks of autumn, Matasaburô and the other children will do various experiments in nature.

Release Date2003-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex

Rachi has aspirations of becoming a punk rocker. But his tendency towards self-sabotage and a budding sexual addiction makes matters increasingly difficult for him and his band mates to make it big.

Release Date1982-11-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Beautiful 2013

Beauty in the eyes of 4 filmmakers. Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Beautiful New Bay Area Project finds it in a kung-fu fighting young woman with a particular sense of honor. From China, Lu Yue's 1 Dimension reinvents a childlike Buddhist fable about good and evil. For Taiwan's Wu Nien-Jen and Hong Kong's Mabel Cheung, beauty resides in reconciliation and new hope. Wu's A New Year, the Same Days happens over New Year when a retired old man leaves home, while Cheung's Indigo takes place during Christmas, with Elaine Jin playing an aging dance teacher with two troublesome children.

Release Date2013-03-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Wild Life

An ex-boxer working for a game parlor owner gets caught up in a complex blackmail operation he doesn't understand. Before long he's caught between two yakuza bosses and a mysterious thief who motivation is unknown. Add in the boss' daughter who has a crush on him and watch him struggle to make sense of it all and come out alive.

Release Date1997-04-05

Vote Count1

The Detective Who Can Say No

Shinji Aoyama’s short film follows an unlikely pair of detectives—played by Susumu Terajima and filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa—as they navigate a quirky case with deadpan seriousness. Mixing parody with genre tropes, the film riffs on the idea of “The Detective Who Can Say No,” echoing the satirical spirit of its title while playfully undermining the conventions of Japanese cop dramas. Made for the omnibus film "Deka Matsuri"

Release Date2003-01-11

The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers

A sequel to the 1980 movie The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. As well as being a rock musical comedy, it also borrows elements from other genres such as road movies, westerns, and meta fiction.

Release Date2018-01-20

Vote Count1

What's a Director?

Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association

Release Date2006-11-04

A Haunted School

Amidst rumors that the spirit of a student, who committed suicide years ago, appears in the photography club darkroom, high school sophomore Yuri borrows a mysterious horror manga from her elusive but studious senior, Miwako.

Release Date1996-11-22

Vote Count2

Gore from Outer Space

A mother is accused of murdering her daughter but when she tells her tale, things don't seem to make sense. Her husband says they have no daughter, there's a psychic that can trace phone calls, a blonde who sings the US anthem, a house with no bathroom, some Lynchian dream sequences, aliens, breeding experiments, very quirky FBI agents, and some other random events.

Release Date2001-01-01

Vote Count2

All Girls Are Twins

The film multiplies women. A tragicomedy about a boy who is continually pranked by the appearance of his twin lovers.

Release Date1980-01-01

Breakfast of the Movie

Documentary on the legendary bento shop "Popeye," known to everyone in the film industry.

Release Date2023-11-10

Vote Count2

突貫ジジイ 第5話 ある実験

In this compact, off-kilter vignette, a lone researcher conducts a small-scale “experiment” whose procedures slide quietly from the scientific to the absurd. Confined to a minimal setting, his deadpan actions and seemingly methodical gestures generate a cool, understated comedic tension. Kiyoshi Kurosawa appears as the white-coated experimenter, and his impassive presence anchors the short’s blend of observational humor and controlled unpredictability.

Release Date2003-11-14

殺しのはらわた

A secretive assassin collective is formed with a single purpose: to eradicate absolute evil from the world. Their final target, however, turns out to be their own leader. As loyalties collapse, a brutal showdown erupts—killer against killer in a fight to the death.

Release Date2006-11-07

The J-Horror Virus

How did a single ‘Big in Japan’ videotape change the course of global horror history? Find out in this insightful documentary charting the origins, evolution and diffusion across the world of a distinctive brand of Japanese supernatural chillers featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology against a backdrop of urban alienation and social decay. From Psychic Vision: Jaganrei (1988) and straight-to-video scary true stories to such key titles as Ring (1998), Pulse (2001) and The Grudge (2002), critics and filmmakers reflect on how the bleak Dystopian visions and unsettling atmospheres infiltrated their way into the world’s shocker consciousness.

Release Date2023-08-27

3 on 3

At some time in the 21st century, Japan's economy is in shambles. Riots and terrorism are the norm. The government buys up television stations in a last-ditch effort to promote nationalism and order to the nation. But this is the dawn of a new dark state. A new form of 3 on 3 basketball is developed in which anything goes, and the winner of the game is the team with the last man left standing.

Release Date2003-04-26

Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Philippe-Emmanuel Sorlin, originally aired 16 June 2015.

Release Date2015-06-16

SCHOOL SOUNDS

Set in a Japanese university in the late '70s, the film discusses the absurdity of cafeteria prices, the struggle over the old clock tower, and more.

Release Date1978-01-01