Spotlight: Kiyoshi Kurosawa (E+J)

[Aaron Gerow]

>What was he up to in the twelve year 
>gap after THE EXCITEMENT OF THE DO-RE-MI-FA GIRL?

The following is his filmography as given by the Japanese Movie Database. 
 It does not include 1999 films.

1.1978.06.25????????????????????????? 
           2.1980.05.15???????? 
           3.1983.08.?????????????????? 
           4.1985.11.03??????????????????????????
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           5.1989.01.21?????????????? 
           6.1989.07.08??????????????????????????
 
           7.1992.06.13?????????? 
           8.1995.04.22?????????????????????? 
           9.1995.08.12?????????????????????? 
          10.1996.02.16?????????????????????? 
          11.1996.02.23?????????????????????? 
          12.1996.04.13????????????? 
          13.1996.09.07?????????????????????? 
          14.1996.09.21?????????????????????? 
          15.1997.03.01??????????????????????????
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          16.1997.05.31??????????????????????????
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          17.1997.12.27???????????? 
          18.1998.02.21??????? 
          19.1998.04.11???????? 

The first two films are some of his 8mm works.  After _Do-re-mi-fa_, he 
made the notorious _Sweet Home_, a horror film produced by Itami Juzo.  
He and Itami had a fight over the completed film (Itami wanted to show 
all the gore and Kurosawa didn't), which eventually went to court.  The 
1992 _Jigoku no keibiin_ is considered one of his masterpieces.  From 
1995, he started making a lot of films in rapid succession for KSS, 
mostly works intended for sale on video but which did briefly get shown 
in the theaters (by the way, some of his for-video works that did not get 
released in the theaters are not listed above).  The _Katte ni 
shiyagare!!_ series, of course, bears the same title as the Japanese 
title of Godard's _Breathless_ (Godard is a crucial intertext for 
Kurosawa).

Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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