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The Japan Foundation and the Consulate-General of Japan are presenting five screenings of Kiyoshi Kurosawa films in cooperation with International Film Series, part of the University of Colorado at Boulder. A prolific director whose career started in the 1980's, Kiyoshi Kurosawa occupies a realm between mass genre and the esoteric, somewhere between Alfred Hitchcock and Yasujiro Ozu. A free retrospective of his work will be presented in 35mm print at the Muenzinger Auditorium, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa profile:
Kiyoshi KUROSAWA was born in Kobe, Japan in 1955. In 1980, he graduated Rikkyo University, where he studied film under the influential film critic, Shigehiko HASUMI. KUROSAWA started to make 8mm films since high school and his first short 8mm film, "SHIGARAMI" was selected for the 1981 PIA Film Festival. In the early 1980s, he worked as assistant to directors such as Shinji SOMAI. In 1983, he completed his first commercial feature, "KANDAGAWA WARS". He continued to direct feature films throughout the 1980s, increasingly working from his own original scripts. Besides his career as a director, KUROSAWA has been a lecturer at Tne Film School of Tokyo since it's opening in 1997.

Admission: Free

Scheduled Film Titles and Dates:

7:00pm, Fri., Oct. 25 CURE
7:00pm, Sun., Oct. 27 Serpent's Path
7:00pm, Fri., Nov. 1 Eyes of the Spider
7:00pm, Sat., Nov. 2 License to Live
7:00pm, Sun., Nov. 3 Barren Illusion

Venue:

Muenzinger Auditorium
University of Colorado at Boulder
1801 Colorado Ave., Boulder, CO, 80309 (Click to Map)