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Kiyoshi Kurosawa Filmography
Complete filmography of Kiyoshi Kurosawa: 34 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Cloud | 2,024 | Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller, Horror | 6.8 | 87 | Japanese | Ryōsuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle. |
| Chime | 2,024 | Horror, Thriller | 6.9 | 77 | Japanese | A chef's life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread. |
| Serpent's Path | 2,024 | Thriller, Crime | 6 | 28 | Japanese | A mysterious woman teams up with a man whose daughter was killed and who is now seeking revenge. Together they kidnap members of an organization and torture them to find out what really happened. |
| Wife of a Spy | 2,020 | Drama, War, Thriller | 6.7 | 99 | Japanese | It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect he’s up to something. Soon she allows herself to be drawn into a game in which she enigmatically conceals her intentions. |
| To the Ends of the Earth | 2,019 | Drama | 6.3 | 59 | Japanese | 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. |
| Before We Vanish | 2,017 | Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 | 97 | Japanese | Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally different person, and he is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered, when an unexplained phenomenon takes place. |
| Foreboding | 2,017 | Science Fiction | 5.7 | 15 | Japanese | Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father there. Etsuko becomes worried about Miyuki's state of mind, and she takes Miyuki to the psychiatric hospital where her husband, Tatsuo, works. There, Miyuki receives a diagnosis that she lacks the concept of "family." Later, Etsuko tells Tatsuo that she is not comfortable with Dr. Jirō Makabe. Tatsuo introduced her to Dr. Makabe earlier at the hospital. Etsuko has a feeling of unease about her husband working with Dr. Makabe. One day, Etsuko hears Dr. Makabe state "I came to Earth to invade." |
| Creepy | 2,016 | Crime, Drama, Horror | 6.7 | 210 | Japanese | After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police force and takes up a position as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. But his desire to get to the bottom of criminals’ motives remains, and he does not hesitate long when former colleague Nogami asks him to reopen an old case. |
| Daguerrotype | 2,016 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance | 5.6 | 48 | French | An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery. |
| Journey to the Shore | 2,015 | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 6.5 | 69 | Japanese | Mizuki's husband Yusuke has been missing for three years. He suddenly comes back home as a ghost and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip consists of visiting the people that helped Yusuke on his previous travel. |
| Real | 2,013 | Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 | 66 | Japanese | Neurosurgeon Koichi uses an experimental technique to enter the brain of his beloved Atsumi, who is in a coma after attempting suicide. In his quest, Koichi drifts steadily further into the sweltering marshes of the spirit. It is soon no longer clear what is real and what is not. |
| Penance | 2,013 | Drama | 7.3 | 42 | Japanese | The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence. |
| Seventh Code | 2,013 | Mystery, Thriller, Action, Drama | 5.8 | 30 | Japanese | Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. Akiko finally finds Matsunaga. However, he leaves her again, warning her not to trust strangers in a foreign country. She tries to follow him, but she is attacked by thugs and dumped on the outskirts of town. |
| Beautiful New Bay Area Project | 2,013 | Action, Drama | 6 | 12 | Japanese | While inspecting a wharf, young Amano, president of an urban planning company, meets beautiful laborer Takako and falls in love at first sight. However, she does not return his affections, so he steals her ID card and goes on the run from the infuriated Takako. |
| Tokyo Sonata | 2,008 | Drama | 7.4 | 267 | Japanese | A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job. |
| Retribution | 2,007 | Thriller, Horror, Mystery | 6.5 | 101 | Japanese | A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points toward the detective as the prime suspect, a ghost in red follows him, and he begins to question his identity. His realization of what seems to have really happened results in something much more sinister and larger in scope, and it leaves his psyche scarred. |
| Loft | 2,006 | Horror, Mystery | 5.5 | 38 | Japanese | A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly discovered mummy and a ghostly presence in her house. |
| Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs | 2,005 | Horror, Fantasy | 5.2 | 13 | Japanese | A married couple living in a house that seems to be inhabited by supernatural beings and beetles. The first of six movies in the Kazuo Umezz's Horror Theater. |
| Bright Future | 2,003 | Drama, Mystery | 6.8 | 53 | Japanese | Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish. |
| Doppelganger | 2,003 | Comedy, Science Fiction, Thriller | 7 | 47 | Japanese | Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer on the verge of a breakthrough in medical technology is confronted by his own. |
| Pulse | 2,001 | Horror, Thriller, Mystery | 6.7 | 644 | Japanese | In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world. |
| Séance | 2,000 | Drama, Horror, TV Movie | 7 | 49 | Japanese | A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by working with the police as a psychic consultant to "find" the girl. And then, things start to go terribly wrong. |
| Charisma | 1,999 | Mystery, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 | 51 | Japanese | 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 mountain forest, encountering a peculiar tree called Charisma. |
| License to Live | 1,999 | Drama, Comedy | 6.1 | 16 | Japanese | Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran. |
| Barren Illusion | 1,999 | Science Fiction, Drama, Romance | 5.6 | 14 | Japanese | In a near future where allergies have become an epidemic, music producer Haru half-heartedly dates post office clerk and mail thief Michi. He searches for violent ways to reactivate his life, she dreams of escaping abroad; both volunteer to test a new drug which may provide a cure. |
| Eyes of the Spider | 1,998 | Crime, Drama | 6.7 | 20 | Japanese | After killing the man he believes murdered his daughter, a white-collar worker returns to his mundane life, until he is approached by a man who offers him a mysterious job opportunity. |
| Serpent's Path | 1,998 | Crime, Thriller | 6.9 | 18 | Japanese | With the help of a mysterious acquaintance, a former low-level yakuza member tracks down and kidnaps the man he believes kidnapped and murdered his daughter, but others are soon implicated in the death. |
| School Ghost Story G | 1,998 | TV Movie, Horror | 6.5 | 13 | Japanese | A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of four stories, two of which serving as prequels to the Ju-on series. |
| Cure | 1,997 | Crime, Thriller, Horror, Mystery | 7.5 | 733 | Japanese | A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo. |
| Door III | 1,996 | Horror | 5.2 | 10 | Japanese | Miyako is a frustrated insurance saleswoman stuck in a major dry spell. She tries every trick in the book, including aggressive flirting, which gets her plenty of gropers but no buyers. One day while venturing down a narrow stairwell, she injures her ankle and happens upon Mitsuru who works for some mysterious foreign company. Decked out in high goth style -- complete with long inky black hair and mascaraed eyes -- Mitsuru cuts quite an odd figure, yet his seductive though menacing ways make him difficult for Miyako to resist. Escorting her to his office to treat her ankle, Miyako notices that his all-female staff seem more glassy-eyed and soul-deadened than the average office workers. In fact, they seem almost like zombies. Later, weird things start happening. Mitsuko finds vomit on her doorstep, she seems to be tailed by a shadowy woman in a red dress, and most strikingly, she finds herself utterly powerless against Mitsuru's advances. |
| The Guard from Underground | 1,992 | Thriller, Horror, Crime | 5.9 | 17 | Japanese | A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage. |
| Sweet Home | 1,989 | Horror | 6.4 | 38 | Japanese | A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife. |
| Bumpkin Soup | 1,985 | Music, Comedy | 4.8 | 13 | Japanese | A country girl visits Tokyo in search of her college heartthrob. Here she meets horny students, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame, and Yoshioka who has become a campus nobody. |
| Kandagawa Pervert Wars | 1,983 | Comedy, Drama | 4.6 | 13 | Japanese | Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one of the young women ends up falling in love with the son despite having a boyfriend and enjoying sex with her female companion. Of course, the mother they are warring against has her own plans when she feels her privacy invaded. |
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