Cloud
A film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
w/ Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira
Rated NR
2hr 4min
A stylish, subversive thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse), concerning Yoshii, an ambitious, yet directionless, young factory worker from Tokyo who side hustles in the murky realm of black market reselling, cheating buyers and sellers alike. After swindling his way into loads of cash, he becomes slowly disconnected to humanity, moving out of the city, shunning his girlfriend, and hiring a devoted assistant. But after a series of mysterious, sinister incidents occur, he begins to suspect his former victims could be plotting the ultimate revenge. A master of carefully simmering tension to a bloody crescendo, Kurosawa delivers a searing portrait of digital greed and vengeance.
An eerie, lean noir thriller that charts an unnerving odyssey through the strange underworld of online resellers... and a paranoid saga about living under the cold grip of late capitalism.
Hoai-Tran Bui
Inverse
Kurosawa films the descent into kill-or-be-killed mayhem with his typically masterful visual proficiency — any given frame of Yasuyuki Sasaki’s no-nonsense cinematography can quickly go from bland to ominous.
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
w/ Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira
Rated NR
2hr 4min
A stylish, subversive thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse), concerning Yoshii, an ambitious, yet directionless, young factory worker from Tokyo who side hustles in the murky realm of black market reselling, cheating buyers and sellers alike. After swindling his way into loads of cash, he becomes slowly disconnected to humanity, moving out of the city, shunning his girlfriend, and hiring a devoted assistant. But after a series of mysterious, sinister incidents occur, he begins to suspect his former victims could be plotting the ultimate revenge. A master of carefully simmering tension to a bloody crescendo, Kurosawa delivers a searing portrait of digital greed and vengeance.
An eerie, lean noir thriller that charts an unnerving odyssey through the strange underworld of online resellers... and a paranoid saga about living under the cold grip of late capitalism.
Hoai-Tran Bui
Inverse
Kurosawa films the descent into kill-or-be-killed mayhem with his typically masterful visual proficiency — any given frame of Yasuyuki Sasaki’s no-nonsense cinematography can quickly go from bland to ominous.
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
