Screenplay: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 43
Tokyo Sonata
2008 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan
Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast Teruyuki Kagawa · Kyôko Koizumi · Yû Koyanagi · Inowaki Kai
Synopsis 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
Synopsis 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 finance his next film project? Meanwhile, he’s directing Shokuzai, a...
6.8
71 votes
6.8
71 votes
License to Live
1998 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan
Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast Kôji Yakusho · Hidetoshi Nishijima · Shun Sugata · Lily
Synopsis 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
Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast Kôji Yakusho · Masato Hagiwara · Tsuyoshi Ujiki · Anna Nakagawa
Synopsis 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
Synopsis 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
Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast Kôji Yakusho · Hiroyuki Ikeuchi · Ren Osugi · Yoriko Douguchi
Synopsis 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 and family without explanation, he makes his way to a...
6.4
104 votes
6.4
104 votes
Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast Mutsuo Yoshioka · Tomoko Tabata · Ikkei Watanabe
Synopsis A schoolteacher’s life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.
6.3
336 votes
6.3
336 votes
Bright Future
2003 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan
Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast Jô Odagiri · Tadanobu Asano · Tatsuya Fuji · Takashi Sasano
Synopsis 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, is fascinated and influenced by Mamoru. When Mamoru is arrested...
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
Synopsis 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 thinks she sees a ghost in her father and newscasters...
6.3
23 votes
6.3
23 votes
Barren Illusions
1999 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan
Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast Shinji Aoyama · Yôko Oguchi · Miako Tadano · Shinji Takeda
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
Synopsis 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
Synopsis 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 of a horrific national secret. For the sake of justice,...
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
Synopsis 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
Synopsis 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 of his company. His doppelganger appears to help him out...
6.0
115 votes
6.0
115 votes
Eyes of the Spider
1998 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan
Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast Sho Aikawa · Dankan · Ren Osugi · Sadao Abe
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
Synopsis 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 reencounter, the two of them embark on a journey to...
6.0
254 votes
6.0
254 votes
Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast Yuko Takeuchi · Teruyuki Kagawa · Masahiro Higashide · Ryôko Fujino
Synopsis 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 the only surviving family member from the case. Meanwhile, Takakura...
5.9
527 votes
5.9
527 votes
Pulse (Kairo)
2001 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan
Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast Haruhiko Kato · Kumiko Aso · Koyuki · Shun Sugata
Synopsis Japanese teens investigate a series of suicides linked to an internet webcam that promises visitors the chance to interact with the dead.
5.7
2K votes
5.7
2K votes
Seventh Code
2013 · Movie · 60 min. · Japan
Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast Atsuko Maeda · Ryôhei Suzuki · Aissy · Hiroshi Yamamoto
Synopsis Ryohei Suzuki (HK: Forbidden Super Hero, Tokyo Tribes) co-stars as a man named Matsunaga who made a strong impression on Maeda’s character Akiko in Tokyo before traveling to Vladivostok. Akiko later travels there herself, but when she’s reunited with Matsunaga,...
5.6
87 votes
5.6
87 votes
Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast Masaki Suda · Kotone Furukawa · Daiken Okudaira · Amane Okayama
Synopsis Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk.
5.5
220 votes
5.5
220 votes