Direction: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Tokyo Sonata

2008 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Teruyuki Kagawa · Kyôko Koizumi · Yû Koyanagi · Inowaki Kai

Plot An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

Penance (TV Miniseries)

2012 · Documentary · 270 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Kyôko Koizumi · Yû Aoi · Eiko Koike · Sakura Ando

Plot Japanese director Kurosawa has been awfully quite since the release of his latest film Tokyo Sonata in 2008. Like many other indie directors in Japan, he may be trying to...

6.8

71 votes

6.8

71 votes

6.7

126 votes

License to Live

1998 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Hidetoshi Nishijima · Shun Sugata · Lily

Plot Yoshi, aged 24, awakes after 10 years in a coma, goes on to start a new life and rebuild his family.

6.7

51 votes

6.7

51 votes

Cure

1997 · Movie · 111 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Masato Hagiwara · Tsuyoshi Ujiki · Anna Nakagawa

Plot A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

To The Ends of the Earth

2019 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Atsuko Maeda · Ryo Kase · Shôta Sometani · Tokio Emoto

Plot 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.

6.4

421 votes

6.4

421 votes

Charisma

1999 · Movie · 104 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Hiroyuki Ikeuchi · Ren Osugi · Yoriko Douguchi

Plot 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...

6.4

104 votes

6.4

104 votes

Chime

2024 · Movie · 45 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Mutsuo Yoshioka · Tomoko Tabata · Ikkei Watanabe

Plot A schoolteacher’s life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.

6.3

269 votes

6.3

269 votes

Bright Future

2003 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Jô Odagiri · Tadanobu Asano · Tatsuya Fuji · Takashi Sasano

Plot Enigmatic Mamoru lives alone with his poisonous but hauntingly luminous jellyfish. These attractive loners sting whoever gets too close. Yuji, an emotionally unstable young man working at the same factory,...

6.3

235 votes

6.3

235 votes

Foreboding

2018 · Movie · 140 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Masahiro Higashide · Kaho · Shôta Sometani · Ren Osugi

Plot Something’s wrong and Etsuko is one of the first to notice. Etsuko suddenly begins hearing strange noises and an increasing number of inexplicable things are happening around her. When Miyuki...

6.3

23 votes

6.3

23 votes

Barren Illusions

1999 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

6.3

62 votes

6.3

62 votes

Modern Love Tokyo (TV Series)

2022 · Series · 40 min. · United States

Direction Atsuko Hirayanagi · Ryuichi Hiroki · Kiyoshi Kurosawa · Naoko Ogigami

Cast Naomi Scott · Douglas Bennett · Sôsuke Ikematsu · Asami Mizukawa

Plot Japanese adaptation of Prime Video's "Modern Love."

6.2

43 votes

6.2

43 votes

Wife of a Spy

2020 · Movie · 115 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Yû Aoi · Issei Takahashi · Ryôta Bandô · Chuck Johnson

Plot Set in 1940, Yusaku (Issey Takahashi) runs a trading company in Kobe, Japan and he is married to Satoko (Yu Aoi). While on a business trip in Manchuria, Yusaku learns...

6.2

887 votes

6.2

887 votes

Daguerrotype

2016 · Movie · 131 min. · France

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Tahar Rahim · Constance Rousseau · Olivier Gourmet · Mathieu Amalric

Plot When an assistant to a daguerreotypy photographer falls in love with the latter's daughter the relationship mirrors the art form as love and pain combine.

6.0

206 votes

6.0

206 votes

Doppelganger

2003 · Movie · 107 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Hiromi Nagasaku · Yusuke Santamaria · Masahiro Toda

Plot Hayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well and he is stressed out and on the verge of being fired from the research division...

6.0

115 votes

6.0

115 votes

Eyes of the Spider

1998 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan

6.0

59 votes

6.0

59 votes

Journey to the Shore

2015 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Yû Aoi · Eri Fukatsu · Akira Emoto

Plot Mizuki lost her husband Yusuke at sea. Years later, her partner’s ghost appears before her eyes. It’s not a terrifying vision, but a return full of routine life. Following their...

6.0

254 votes

6.0

254 votes

Creepy

2016 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Yuko Takeuchi · Teruyuki Kagawa · Masahiro Higashide · Ryôko Fujino

Plot Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred 6 years earlier. Takakura follows Saki's memory. She is...

5.9

527 votes

5.9

527 votes

Beautiful New Bay Area Project

2013 · Movie · 29 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Emoto Tasuku · Mita Moa

Plot A company president (Emoto Tasuku) is pursued by a Kung fu fighting co-worker (Mita Moa) after he steals her nameplate from the staff board.

5.8

45 votes

5.8

45 votes

Pulse (Kairo)

2001 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Haruhiko Kato · Kumiko Aso · Koyuki · Shun Sugata

Plot Japanese teens investigate a series of suicides linked to an internet webcam that promises visitors the chance to interact with the dead.

Max

5.7

2K votes

5.7

2K votes