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Review: In Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'Cloud,' an online hustler gets his merciless, real-world comeuppance

Summary by Los Angeles Times
The Japanese director of spooky millennial masterpieces 'Cure' and 'Pulse' returns with an evolution of his brand of elegant menace: a story of crime and punishment.

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s <em>Cloud</em>: “Profiteering and revenge overlap and amplify…”

Everyone in Cloud is either a fraudster, a cynic, an opportunist or a psychopath. How accurate is that as a view of life in Japan, or anywhere else?

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Review: In Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'Cloud,' an online hustler gets his merciless, real-world comeuppance

The Japanese director of spooky millennial masterpieces 'Cure' and 'Pulse' returns with an evolution of his brand of elegant menace: a story of crime and punishment.

·Los Angeles, United States
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Revue Du «Cloud»: an Online Scammer Gets His Ruthless Co-Power

As with the proverbial frog in this pot of water, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s terrifying “cloud” in the action judge of Callow Internet has nothing good to offer in the place where we have been brought anonymity online and the electronic capital. But the journey to this deadly and rolling boil is, in the hands of Japan’s first suspense director, no doubt a story of biting, a story of carefully heavy clicks leading to many reckless triggers. What loneline…

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Film Review: "Cloud" -- Death By Capitalism - The Arts Fuse

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's return to form might be explained by his looking backward: the director has chosen to grapple with the fact that many of the pessimistic prophecies of his earlier films have come true.

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Los Angeles Times broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Friday, July 25, 2025.
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