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Kiyoshi Kurosawa (黒沢 清, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, born July 19, 1955) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic, actor, and professor at Tokyo University of the Arts.. Noted for his psychological films that often focus on ambiguous narratives and on their characters' inner turmoils and quests for meaning and connections, he is best known for his contributions to psychological horror and Japanese horror, notably his acclaimed 1997 film Cure, although he has also worked in a variety ...
Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Director: Tokyo Sonata. Kiyoshi Kurosawa was born on 19 July 1955 in Kobe, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Tokyo Sonata (2008), Pulse (2001) and Cure (1997).
Sep 17, 2020 · As Kiyoshi Kurosawa returns home from the Venice Film Festival with a heavy suitcase, AnOther looks back on some career highlights that forged his winning path September 17, 2020. Text James Balmont “Master of horror” is not traditionally an accolade recognised by the world’s leading film competitions, but for Kiyoshi Kurosawa, it’s proved something of a boon.
4 days ago · Then Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 Japanese serial killer thriller 'Cure,' now streaming on The Criterion Channel, is the movie for you. What to Watch After 'Longlegs': Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'Cure'
With his signature dark, visceral aesthetic, filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa has helped build the reputation of Japan's already acclaimed horror genre. Kurosawa began directing in the 1980s with low ...
Sep 22, 2020 · One of the greats of contemporary Japanese cinema, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is one of those rare filmmakers whose work straddles wildly differing genres yet remains bound together by common threads. Winner of the best director award at the Venice Film Festival 2020 for his period espionage drama Wife of a Spy, Kurosawa was known initially as a proponent of the horror genre, his first films coinciding with the turn of the millennium wave of J-horror. ...
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s arresting international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of an emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration. A string of shocking, seemingly unmotivated murders—each committed by a different person yet all bearing the same grisly hallmarks—leads Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) into a labyrinthine investigation to discover what connects them, and into a disturbing game ...
Nov 8, 2022 · Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 1997 film “Cure,” whose 4K restoration version was released in South Korean theaters this July and distributed by the Criterion Collection several months later, is an unnerving, creepy masterwork that will haunt you in more than one way."Cure" gradually immerses you into its subtle but undeniably ominous atmosphere once you go along with its rather twisty journey into darkness, and you will find yourself chilled much more than expected around the movie's final shot.
Oct 19, 2016 · Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa's horror films are unlike any other J-horror films. This is partly a matter of cerebral approach, and partly a technical difference: he directs films differently because he conceives of his films with greater, and perhaps more eccentric detail than other J-horror filmmakers.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Director: Tokyo Sonata. Kiyoshi Kurosawa was born on 19 July 1955 in Kobe, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Tokyo Sonata (2008), Pulse (2001) and Cure (1997).
