Japanese Thriller ‘Cloud’, ‘Drowning Dry’ From ‘Flow’ Producer & ‘No Sleep Till’ Take Indie Bow – Specialty Preview

Japanese Thriller ‘Cloud’, ‘Drowning Dry’ From ‘Flow’ Producer & ‘No Sleep Till’ Take Indie Bow – Specialty Preview

This summer specialty weekend is offering a handful of limited releases from Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud to Unicorns by Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd, to the latest in the Jujutsu Kaisen series, Drowning Dry co-produced by Flow Academy award-winner Matiss Kaza and a handful of thoughtful docs. It’s a buzzy, busy box office with lots to see from Superman on down. Ari Aster’s Eddington from A24 is wide on 2,000 screens. Sideshow/Janus Fi…

The Crazy Thriller Cloud Captures the Cruelty of Capitalism

In J-horror legend Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s tense and nutty new thriller, ‘Cloud,’ an internet reseller begins to feel the consequences of his actions.

‘Cloud’ Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Delivers a Brilliant Action Movie as Only He Would Think to Make One

The director of "Cure" and "Pulse" switches things into a slightly higher gear with a bullet-filled story about the petty grievances people develop towards each other online.

You'll find a gripping new internet thriller in the 'Cloud'

The internet and its discontents run wild in a new film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a prolifically offbeat Japanese filmmaker who's spent the last four decades putting subversive spins on traditional genres.

New Thriller ‘Cloud’ Paints a Gloomy Picture of Modern-Day Japan

Similar to the work of Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang, director Kiyoshi Kurosawa draws on genre to examine cultural norms and aberrations.

“Cloud” Is a Cautionary Tale of E-Commerce—and the Summer’s Best Action Movie

Justin Chang reviews the film “Cloud,” directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, in which a crafty online grifter, played by Masaki Suda, learns that digital crimes beget analog punishments.