Kiyoshi Kurosawa

What if a movie made you feel scared by being quiet instead of loud? That's Kiyoshi Kurosawa's special trick. He is a Japanese director who makes movies that quietly creep into your imagination.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa (born 1955) is a film director from Japan. He became famous in the late 1990s and early 2000s for thoughtful, eerie films. The single most important thing about him is how he builds slow, strange suspense. Two famous examples are Cure (1997) and Pulse, called Kairo in Japan, (2001).

Why does this matter? Cure is a quiet mystery that feels like a puzzle, and Pulse uses the internet to tell a ghost story about loneliness and how people can be separated even when they are connected. These movies travelled around the world and helped people notice Japanese horror movies. Filmmakers learned from Kurosawa's way of using empty rooms, strange sounds, and patient scenes to make big feelings.

Kurosawa shows movies can be about people and feelings as much as monsters. His films changed how some directors tell spooky stories: less shouting, more slow mood and thought. If you like stories that make you think and shiver, remember Kiyoshi Kurosawa — a director who taught movies to whisper.