Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese filmmaker. He was born on July 19, 1955 in Kobe

Kurosawa got his start by directing V-cinema released in the 1980s, and in the 90s he studied film at the Sundance Institute in Park City, Utah. He gained international notoriety with his 1997 serial murder thriller, Cure, and went on to direct several psychological horror films during the J-horror boom of the early 2000s.

Since then, he’s veered away from horror to direct several thematic emotional dramas such as Bright Future (2003) and Tokyo Sonata, winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes in 2008.