Review: Dark and Stormy Japanese Thriller Cloud Is an Excellent Exploration of a Market Driven by Greed

Review: Dark and stormy Japanese thriller Cloud is an excellent exploration of a market driven by greed

Auteur filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa returns to his horror roots, with a dash of action movie gunplay

Cloud Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Crafts a Dark Thriller with Satirical Edge

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. Cloud opens in theaters on July 18. Kiyoshi Kurosawa is having quite the year. Chime, a mid-length chiller, was a standout at the Berlinale. A French-language remake of his own Serpent’s Path will have its European premiere at San Sebastian. And now we have Cloud: a cold thriller with a dark, satirical edge that shows the master filmmaker at his leanest and meanest,…

Cloud — Kiyoshi Kurosawa [Review]

Kiyoshi Kurosawa has been arguably the greatest filmmaker of the last decade, his works across this period constituting one of the most impressive contemporary bodies of work from a veteran filmmaker, one as dedicated to remixing his own work in late auteur style as he is retaining the fresh experimental bent of a much younger [...] The post Cloud — Kiyoshi Kurosawa [Review] appeared first on In Review Online.

Film Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa is Back in Top Form with ‘Cloud’ - Awards Radar

Like Takashi Miike, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has amassed a significant filmography in Japan, with a body of work totaling over 70 features and shorts for cinema and television. While many of them have not been seen by the masses and aren’t available for viewing outside of Japan, Kurosawa has still been able to solidify his place within contemporary genre cinema as one of its foremost artists, particularly with his 1997 masterpiece, Cure, which is arguab…