Kiyoshi Kurosawa

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa ( Japanese 黒 沢 清 , Kurosawa Kiyoshi ; born July 19, 1955 in Kobe ) is a Japanese director and screenwriter who gained international fame, especially for his horror films .

Kurosawa made his first Super 8 films as a teenager , started his artistic career as an assistant director a. a. by Shinji Sōmai before in the 1980s with productions of low budget - Yakuza films for the direct-to-video production debuted as a director, for which he partially also wrote the screenplay, and occasionally as an actor in front of the camera kicked. In 1992 he was offered a scholarship at the Sundance Institute, which enabled him to study directing in the United States, although at that time he could already look back on almost ten years as a director in charge.

He first achieved international attention in 1997 with his study of a serial killer in the film Cure ( キ ュ ア ), for whose screenplay he was also responsible and which won several national awards. Pulse ( 回路 ) gave the J-Horror 2001 decisive impulses.

In spring 2005 he accepted a position as professor at the Graduate School of Film and New Media at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music .

Tōkyō Sonata was awarded the prize in the “ Un Certain Regard ” section at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival . In this series, too, Pulse 2001 received a proportion of the FIPRESCI award from the film critics. In 2012, Kurosawa shot the five-part miniseries " Penance " for Japanese television.

In contrast to his well-known Japanese colleagues, his extraordinarily innovative films are not characterized by exaggerated depictions of blood, but rather by a slow, elegiac narrative and a frighteningly static atmosphere. The stylist Kurosawa often tells of apocalypse, madness, ghosts, landscapes, scientists or cops with bald mise-en-scène, staged to the appearance of still lifes that do not direct the viewer's eye, and the use of cool plan sequences in the predominant long shot and extensive freedom from dialogue or at least meaningful dialogue of the disaffected, isolated characters (leading role mostly Kōji Yakusho ). Visual ingenuity and an impressive sound track (of diverse dramaturgical functions) go hand in hand in his very symbolic horror films. In 2005, Slant called him a “master of lingering on moments of indecision and passive frustration to a point of comic absurdity .” He consistently escapes rational explanations. In the later work, the amusing, the surreal and the (cinematic) strange increasingly come to the fore. In his previous works he has designed a world in which one would not like to live. Kashō Abe in 2000 on the filmmaker, who is very far removed from current western mainstream conventions: “Film is not the same as narration. The substance of film is rather the difference between them. "

Filmography (selection)

  • 1989: Sweet Home ( ス ウ ィ ー ト ホ ー ム , Suwīto Hōmu )
  • 1997: Cure ( キ ュ ア , Kyua )
  • 1998: Hebi no Michi ( 蛇 の 道 )
  • 1998: Kumo no Hitomi ( 蜘蛛 の 瞳 )
  • 1999: Approved as a human ( ニ ン ゲ ン 合格 , Ningen Gōkaku )
  • 1999: Ōinaru Gen'ei ( 大 い な る 幻影 )
  • 2000: Charisma ( カ リ ス マ , Karisuma )
  • 2001: Pulse ( 回路 , Cairo )
  • 2001: Seance - The horror ( 降 霊 , Kōrei )
  • 2003: Akarui Mirai ( ア カ ル イ ミ ラ イ )
  • 2003: Doppelganger ( ド ッ ペ ル ゲ ン ガ ー , Dopperugengā )
  • 2005: Loft ( ロ フ ト , Rofuto )
  • 2006: Sakebi ( 叫 )
  • 2008: Tōkyō Sonata ( ト ウ キ ョ ウ ソ ナ タ )
  • 2012: Atonement ( 贖罪 , Shokuzai ; miniseries)
  • 2013: Real - Kanzen Naru Kubinagaryū no Hi ( リ ア ル 〜 完全 な る 首長 竜 の 日 〜 )
  • 2014: Seventh Code
  • 2015: Kishibe no Tabi ( 岸 辺 の 旅 )
  • 2016: Kurīpī: Itsuwari no Rinjin ( ク リ ー ピ ー 偽 り の 隣人 )
  • 2016: Daguerreotype ( ダ ゲ レ オ タ イ プ の 女 )
  • 2017: Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha ( 散 歩 す る 侵略者 )
  • 2017: Yochō: Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha ( 予 兆 散 歩 す る 侵略者 )
  • 2019: To the Ends of the Earth ( 旅 の お わ り 世界 の は じ ま り Tabi no Owari Sekai no Hajimari )
  • 2020: The Wife of a Spy ( ス パ イ の 妻 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suchenski, Yale CEAS, p 1. See Links.
  2. ^ Penance , review by Michael Kienzl on critic.de
  3. ↑ a b c Rapfogel. See web links: "Kurosawa's films are always highly enigmatic" .
  4. ↑ a b Kashô, Yale CEAS, p. 5. See web links.
  5. ↑ Jeremiah Kipp: Pulse. In: Slant. June 20, 2005, accessed on September 22, 2008 (English): "a master at lingering on moments of indecision or passive frustration to the point of comical absurdity"
  6. ↑ Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Exclusive interview with a star director of genre cinema. (No longer available online.) In: Arte Tracks. ARTE GEIE, January 18, 2007, archived from the original on January 9, 2016 ; Retrieved September 22, 2008 : “Maybe I switched to comedy without realizing it. ( K. Kurosawa ) “ Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  7. ↑ Claudia Siefen spoke to him in 2008 for the website The Manifesto about the “still amusing, continually cultivated misunderstanding that he makes horror films” . See web links.
personal data
SURNAME Kurosawa, Kiyoshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 黒 沢 清
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobe , Hyogo Prefecture , Japan