New Japanese Trailer for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘Cloud’ Unsettling Thriller
by Alex Billington
August 23, 2024
Source: YouTube
“You sneaky bastard.” “Let’s kill him.” Another sneaky look at this. Tokyo Theater Nikkatsu has debuted a “full” 60-second official trailer for the Japanese film titled Cloud, which is getting a grand premiere at the 2024 Venice Film Fesitval in a week. It’s one of three (!!) brand new films from prolific Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa due out in 2024. He also has another one Chime and yet another French one called Le chemin du serpent (or Path of the Snake) in post already. The tile Cloud is a reference to the digital space known as the cloud, as it’s a peculiar horror story about how hatred spreads online. Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online by flipping cheap products for high prices, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk. Online threats against him start to become real. The film stars Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daikan Okudaira, Okayama Amane, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Masataka Kubota. The film is less of a horror, more of an action thriller, with some mysterious elements that build up as it goes on. This should be a big hit at Venice and beyond – keep an eye out for it in your area.
Here’s the main Japanese trailer (+ poster) for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film Cloud, direct from YouTube:
You can rewatch the teaser trailer for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud right here to view the first look again.
A suspense thriller depicting “collective madness” born from a chain of hatred. A man wearing a bag mask suddenly appears in front of the main character, Yoshii. Yoshii suddenly becomes a “target” when he hears a voice saying “I’ll kill this guy” while looking at an online screen where hatred towards “Ratel” is posted. Why are you being targeted? Who are you targeting? Cloud, also known as クラウド in Japanese, is written and directed by prolific Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa, director of many films including Sweet Home, Cure, License to Live, Charisma, Pulse, Bright Future, Doppelganger, Retribution, Tokyo Sonata, Real, Seventh Code, Journey to the Shore, Creepy, Daguerrotype, Before We Vanish, To the Ends of the Earth, and Wife of a Spy previously. Produced by Tokyo Theater Nikkatsu. The film will be premiering soon at the 2024 Venice Film Festival in the Out of Competition section. Kurosawa’s Cloud will release first in Japan starting on September 27th, 2024. No other release dates are set – stay tuned. Visit its official site.
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