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Kiyoshi Kurosawa profile:
Born in Kobe, Hyogo prefecture in 1955. He was engaging in independent 8mm
filmmaking and its exhibitions while he was studying at Rikkyo University. After
his graduation, he worked as an assistant director for Kazuhiko Hasegawa and
Shinji Somai. He joined an independent film production company, the Directors
Company, and made the first commercial debut by The Kandagawa Wars (Kandagawa
Inran Senso) in 1983. In following years, he made The Excitement of the
Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (Do-Re-Mi-Fa Musume no Chi Wa Swagu, 1985) and Sweet Home (Suiito
Homu, 1989). In 1992, his original screenplay, Charisma (Karisuma), won the
Sundance Institute Scholarship and it set him off to the U.S for training. From
1995, he had produced numbers of films including Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself
series and the Revenge series. Following the participation of CURE (Kyua) in the
Tokyo International Film Festival, he gained the international recognition by
receiving numbers of invitations to film festivals all over the world. These
include License to Live (Ningen Gokaku, 1998) at the Berlin Film Festival,
Charisma (Karisuma, 1999) in the Director’s Week at Cannes Film Festival, and
Barren Illusion (Oinaru Genei, 1999) in the Venice Film Festival. The “Kiyoshi Kurosawa Film Festival” hit the festival circuit and it went to Hong Kong,
Edinburgh, Toronto, Paris, Taipei, Rotterdam and more. In 2000, Cure, License to
Live and Charisma were showcased in several cities in France including Paris.
That same year, Pulse (Kairo, 2000) was invited to the Certain Regard section at
Cannes Film Festival and won the International Critics Award. As one of the most
important and popular Japanese directors, he is enthusiastically received from
all over the world.
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