Cloud
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
Biographies
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).
