Born in Kobe on July 19, 1955, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is not related to director Akira Kurosawa. ... Kurosawa followed up Cure with a semi-sequel in 1999 with Charisma, a detective film starring Kōji Yakusho. In 2000, Seance, Kurosawa's adaptation of the novel Seance on a Wet Afternoon by Mark McShane, premiered on Kansai TV.