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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.Kurosawa first began directing in the 1980s, working on low-budget V-Cinema (direct-to-video) productions such as formula yakuza pictures. 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.

Kurosawa first achieved international acclaim with his serial killer film Kyua (Cure) (1997). 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.

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. In 2001 Kurosawa directed Pulse, a film about ghosts invading the world of the living by way of the Internet. 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. Kurosawa followed this with another digital feature, Doppelganger, later the same year.