Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s revenge thriller Cloud (2024) will have its exclusive streaming premiere on the Criterion Channel starting October 7. The channel will also present a Meet the Filmmakers interview with the director.
The film, starring Masaki Suda, premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was recently the centerpiece presentation of Japan Society’s JAPAN CUTS film festival.
Summary from Janus Films:
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.
