Kurosawa is a Japanese director and screenwriter. He was an amateur filmmaker when he was still in high school and later studied film at the Rikkyo University. He made his directing debut in 1983 with the film The Kandagawa Wars, and attracted critical attention with his next film Do-re-mi-fa-musume no chi wa sawagu (The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl, 1985). Afterwards he made the series of films Katte ni shiyagare!! (Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself). He achieved international success with the film Kyua (Cure, 1997), and the following year he did an experiment by simultaneously filming two different films with the same theme: Kumo no hitomi (Eyes of the Spider) and Hebi no michi (Serpent's Path). Afterwards he made Ningen gokaku (Licence To Live, 1998), Karisuma (Charisma, 1999), TV film Kôrei (Seance, 2000), acclaimed horror Kairo (Pulse, 2001), Akarui Mirai (Bright Future, 2003), thriller Dopperugengâ (Doppelganger, 2003), horror Rofuto (Loft, 2005) and Sakebi (Retribution, 2006). He is currently working on Tôkyô sonata (2008).