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Jun Kurosawa
Born in 1964, Jun Kurosawa studied art science at the Tama Art University. While in college, he learned filmmaking by Sakumi Hagiwara. After graduation, he related not only to Japanese experimental film movements but also to the Japanese contemporary art scene. His works contain a wide variety of artistic genres: industrial music, performances, and opera. Since 1989 numerous screenings and awards…
Known For
Looking for an Angel · 1999Looking for an Angel
★ 5.91999
MovieDrama
Takachi, a young porno star from a small town in Japan is found dead. His death provides the opportunity to show us his true emotions, and how his two best friends in Tokyo remember him. These two travel back to Takachi's town, Kochi, which Takachi himself had visited just prior to dying. In Kochi, all boys seem to be angels.
Joou no Houigaku ~Shikatsushi~ · 2021Joou no Houigaku ~Shikatsushi~
★ 7.02021
MovieCrime
A genius forensic scientist pushes around one of her students while investigating a case.
The God Crippled With One Leg · 1994The God Crippled With One Leg
★ 7.01994
MovieDrama
A young woman is left stranded in an abandoned industrial building, bound by 16mm film. Meanwhile, an angel roams a highway.
BYE-BYE · 1989BYE-BYE
★ 5.01989
Movie
Experimental animation about the memory of childhood. 1 or 2 second paint footage that shot a baby who turned his face is repetitive. In Jun Kurosawa's works, the childishness is one of the most important factors. And it includes malicious in some cases – as Yukio Mishima has said "It is infantilism that all creative womb is".
Sexy Dream of Love: Yuka Tachihara · 1987Sexy Dream of Love: Yuka Tachihara
1987
Movie
Yuka Tachihara is 18 years old. Have you ever looked into the depths of the tears filling her eyes? In a bath full of bubbles, she is embraced passionately by the person who entered her imagination...
pb · 2003pb
★ 5.02003
MovieDrama
This nonsense short drama was created for the film festival "Very Very Short" at the Tollywood Theatre in Shimokitazawa. At that time, the condition was (1) two minutes, (2) insert a date, and (3) within the film include the word of "Sa-yo-na-ra".
REQUIEM · 1989REQUIEM
★ 8.01989
Movie
NEKO-MIMI · 1994NEKO-MIMI
★ 7.51994
MovieDrama
Experimental film in which three girls and one boy lead playful lives. Just as a game, in which the course is determined from beginning to end by certain rules, can be played time and again, their lives are also endless repetition. This eventually results in a loss of a sense of time, for past and future. The four are permanently surrounded by cameras and projectors. In this way we see how photos are repeatedly taken of one of the girls and the boy keeps staring at a film screen. Everything which cannot be repeated is the object of their hatred. One day a woman appears in their lives and wants to die. The four try to involve her in their game, but the opposite happens: the fact that the woman is different disrupts their self-made world. Having playacted a funeral for the woman, they become more and more entangled in their own game.















