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2025 SFFILM Festival

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Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Japan | Fiction | 123

20 Apr
Sun, Apr 20 at 8:30 pm PT

Description

Shrouded in the chilling atmosphere that has become a hallmark of his career, horror maestro Kiyoshi Kurosawa crafts yet another eerie tale that reveals the darkest parts of the human condition. Ryosuke Yoshii runs an online reselling operation out of his drab Tokyo apartment, determined to strike it big. Through sheer gumption, his unscrupulous practices pay off, allowing him to move to an ornate home in the countryside where his business continues to expand. But Yoshii’s misdeeds eventually catch up with him. A series of unsettling and inexplicable occurrences disrupt his tranquil existence, before the malevolence’s true form emerges from the shadows. Kurosawa builds off the themes of his 2001 classic cyber horror Pulse, imbuing his protagonist’s plight with a keen awareness of how the digital frontier has infiltrated our lives and become a domain for our most troubling and malicious tendencies. —Jordan Klein

Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Born in Kobe, Japan, Kiyoshi Kurosawa started his filmmaking career in Japan’s prolific direct-to-video scene of the early and mid-1980s, churning out multiple soft-core “pink films” and low-budget yakuza works. He achieved critical acclaim and international notoriety with more polished, supernaturally tinged films like Cure (Festival 1997), Charisma (Festival 1999), Doppelganger (Festival 2003), Retribution (2006), Journey to the Shore (Festival 2016), and Chime (2024).

Film Details

LanguageJapanese

Original Language Titleクラウド

Year2024

Runtime123

CountryJapan

DirectorKiyoshi Kurosawa

ProducerYumi Arakawa, Yuki Nishimiya, Nobuhiro Iizuka

Executive ProducerMasanari Nagayama, Kazuhiro Ohta, Masato Usui, Takuya Matsumoto, Junji Igarashi, Yasutaka Fuke, Yoshiharu Arai

WriterKiyoshi Kurosawa

EditorKoichi Takahashi

CinematographerYasuyuki Sasaki

MusicTakuma Watanabe

CastMasaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira

Closed CaptionsClosed Captions are not currently confirmed for this film

Audio DescriptionAudio Descriptions are not currently confirmed for this film

American Sign Language (ASL) InterpretationAmerican Sign Language Interpretation is not currently scheduled for this film