NYFF '08: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Kurosawa  Kiyoshi was born in Kobe, Japan in 1955. He graduated from the sociology department of Rikkyo University and made his feature debut with Kandagawa Wars in 1983. Cure, premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 1997 and also screened at the Yokohama Film Festival where it won the Best Director Prize in 1999. License to Love played in the Berlin International Film Festival and Charisma was highly acclaimed at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. Barren Illusion was selected for Venice in 1999, while in 2001, Pulse won the Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard. Kurosawa returned to Cannes in 2003 with Bright Future in competition while his Doppelganger was selected as the opening film for the 2003 Pusan International Film Festival. Most recently, Retribution was screened out of competition in Venice in 2006.