Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Born	July 19th, 1955 Japan
Occupation	Film director and screenwriter
Years active	1973 – present

Kiyoshi Kurosawa (黒沢 清, Kurosawa Kiyoshi^?, born July 19th, 1955—of no relation to famed director Akira Kurosawa) is a Japanese filmmaker best known for his many contributions to the J-horror genre. Events 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made The year 1973 in film involved some significant events Events The Marx Brothers ' Zeppo Marx divorces his second Events 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) The are the dominant Ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent of these approximately 127 million are residents of Japan A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. J-Horror is a term used to refer to Japanese contributions to Horror fiction in popular culture

Contents 1 Biography 2 Style and influences 3 Selected filmography 4 References 5 External links

Biography

Kurosawa first began directing in the 1980s, working on low-budget V-Cinema (direct-to-video) productions such as formula yakuza pictures. Japanese V-Cinema is the Direct-to-video industry that appeared in Japan in the 1980s Yakuza eiga, or yakuza films, is a popular Film genre in Japanese cinema which focuses on the lives and dealings of Yakuza In the early 1990s, he won a scholarship to the Sundance Institute and was able to study filmmaking in the United States, although he had been directing for nearly ten years professionally. Sundance Institute is a non-profit organization based in Park City, Utah, and founded by actor/director/producer Robert Redford in 1981 The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

Kurosawa first achieved international acclaim with his serial killer film Kyua (Cure) (1997). A serial killer is a person who Murders usually three or more people with a "cooling off" period between each murder and whose motivation for killing is largely based (original name CURE is a 1997 Psychological thriller or Psychological horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Koji Yakusho Also that year, Kurosawa experimented by filming two thrillers back-to-back, Serpent's Path and Eyes of the Spider, both of which shared the same premise (a father taking revenge for his child's murder) and lead actor (Sho Aikawa) but spun entirely different stories. Sho Aikawa (哀川 翔 Aikawa Shō, born May 24, 1961) alternately credited as Show Aikawa, is a Japanese Composer and Actor

Kurosawa followed up Cure with a semi-sequel in 1999 with Charisma, which established his penchant for apocalyptic imagery and themes of identity and isolation. is a 1999 Film directed by Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. In 2001 Kurosawa directed Pulse, a film about ghosts invading the world of the living by way of the Internet. is a 2001 J-Horror Film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The film was based on his novel of the same name and was released in the US in 2005 The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks More recently Kurosawa has released Akarui Mirai (Bright Future) (2003), starring Tadanobu Asano, the first film of his shot with a 24p High-Definition video camera. is a 2003 Japanese Film written and directed by Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Tadanobu Asano and Tadanobu Asano (浅野忠信 Asano Tadanobu) born Tadanobu Sato (佐藤 忠信 Satō Tadanobu, born November 27, 1973, in Yokohama In video technology 24p refers to a video format that operates at 24 Frames per second (or typically 23 Video is the technology of electronically capturing, Recording, processing storing transmitting and reconstructing a sequence of Still images Kurosawa followed this with another digital feature, Doppelganger, later the same year. is a 2003 Japanese Film written and directed by Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Koji Yakusho and

Style and influences

Kurosawa's directing style has been compared to that of Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky, though he has never expressly listed those directors as influences. Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Андре́й Арсе́ньевич Тарко́вский (April 4 1932 - December 29 1986 was a Soviet Film director, writer and opera director In interviews Kurosawa has voiced admiration for American films of the early 1970s. ^[1]

Many of his films are concerned in some form with the way society shapes the individual, with individuals obsessed with some eccentric project, or how social mechanisms disintegrate when faced with the wholly irrational. Cure is widely cited as the best example of all of these concepts in one film, but they show up in others as well: Bright Future combines the first and second in its plot about a ruminative young man trying to accommodate a jellyfish to live in fresh water with unexpected results. Jellyfish are free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria. They have several different basic morphologies that represent several different cnidarian classes including the

Selected filmography

1997 Cure (キュア Kyua)

1998 Serpent's Path (蛇の道 Hebi no michi)

1998 Eyes of the Spider (蜘蛛の瞳 Kumo no hitomi)

1999 License to Live (ニンゲン合格 Ningen gōkaku)

1999 Barren Illusions (大いなる幻影 Ōinaru genei)

2000 Charisma (カリスマ Karisuma)

2001 Kairo (回路), aka Pulse

2001 Seance (降霊 Kōrei)

2003 Bright Future (アカルイミライ Akarui mirai)

2003 Doppelganger (ドッペルゲンガー Dopperugengā)

2005 Loft (ロフト Rofuto)

2006 Retribution (叫 Sakebi)

2008 Tokyo Sonata

References

External links

• Kiyoshi Kurosawa at the Internet Movie Database
• Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database

The, commonly referred to as JMDB, is an Online Database of information about Japanese movies, Actors and production crew personnel

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