Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japanese film director, screenwriter and film critic
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- July 19, 1955 · Kobe
- Nationality
- Japan
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, film critic, journalist
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 11.001 citation
- 2Tokyo Sonataトウキョウソナタ
2008 · Japan · drama
Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 2008 #4 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2009 #9 · Film Comment year-end poll 2009 #44
0.913 citations - 3Cureキュア
1997 · Japan · horror
Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1998 #5 · Letterboxd Top 250 #194 · Criterion Collection spine #1155
0.753 citations - 4
2015 · Japan · drama
Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 2015 #5 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2015 #10
0.682 citations - 50.431 citation
- 60.391 citation
- 70.321 citation
- 80.301 citation
- 90.291 citation
Complete filmography
All 35 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1980Vertigo College
- 1983Kandagawa Pervert Wars
- 1985The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl
- 1989Sweet Home
- 1992The Guard from Underground
- 1997Cure
- 1998Eyes of the Spider
- 1998License to Live
- 1998Serpent's Path
- 1999Barren Illusion
- 1999Charisma
- 2000Seance
- 2001Pulse
- 2003Bright Future
- 2003Doppelganger
- 2005Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater
- 2005Loft
- 2006Retribution
- 2008Tokyo Sonata
- 2011Real
- 2013Seventh Code
- 2015Journey to the Shore
- 2016Creepy
- 2016The Woman in the Silver Plate
- 2017Before We Vanish
- 2018Foreboding
- 2019To the Ends of the Earth
- 2020Wife of a Spy
- 2024Chime
- 2024Cloud
- 2024Serpent's Path
- 2026Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner
- —1905
- —Dangerous Stories
- —Penance