Cloud (film)

2024 Japanese thriller film

Not to be confused with Clouds (2000 film) or Clouds (2020 film).

Cloud

Theatrical release poster

Japanese| クラウド
Directed by| Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Written by| Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring| Masaki Suda
Cinematography| Yasuyuki Sasaki
Music by| Takuma Watanabe

Production
companies

* Nikkatsu
* Tokyo Theatres Company

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Release dates

* August 30, 2024 (2024-08-30) (Venice)
* September 27, 2024 (2024-09-27) (Japan)

Running time

| 123 minutes
Country| Japan
Language| Japanese

Cloud (クラウド, Kuraudo) is a 2024 Japanese psychological thriller film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Masaki Suda.[1]

The film premiered out of competition at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, on 30 August 2024.[2] It was selected for the Best International Feature Film as the Japanese entry at the 97th Academy Awards.[3]

## Premise

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Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk.[4]

## Cast

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* Masaki Suda as Ryosuke Yoshii, an internet reseller[4]
* Kotone Furukawa as Akiko, Yoshii's lover[4]
* Daiken Okudaira as Sano, Yoshii's assistant[4]
* Amane Okayama as Miyake, a man who resides in an internet cafe[4]
* Yoshiyoshi Arakawa as Takimoto, who owns the factory where Yoshii works[4]
* Masataka Kubota as Muraoka, who brings Yoshii into the online resale business[4]
* Yutaka Matsushige[5]
* Masaaki Akahori as Tonoyama Souichi, factory president[5]
* Maho Yamada as Chizuru, Tonoyama's wife[5]
* Mutsuo Yoshioka as Yabe[5]
* Yusei Mikawa as Inoue[5]
* Toshihiro Yagi as Hojo, a police officer[5]
* Yoshiyuki Morishita as Murota[5]
* Tetsuya Chiba as the hunter[5]

## Release

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Cloud premiered out of competition at the 81st Venice International Film Festival.[2] The film will be released in Japan on 27 September 2024.[6] and it was selected as Japan's entry for best international film for 97th Academy Awards.[7]

It was also selected in Gala Presentation at the 29th Busan International Film Festival to be screened on October 3, 2024.[8] It has been selected for the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2024 under the World Cinema section.[9]

## Reception

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### Critical response

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 92% of 25 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.60/10.[10] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[11]

### Accolades

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Award  | Ceremony date  | Category  | Recipient  | Result  | Ref.

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Sitges Film Festival | 13 October 2024 | Best Feature Film  | Cloud | Nominated  | [12]

## See also

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* Cinema of Japan
* List of submissions to the 97th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
* List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

## References

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1. ^ a b Raup, Jordan (13 February 2024). "Kiyoshi Kurosawa Will Now Premiere Three Films in 2024". The Film Stage. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
2. ^ a b Billington, Alex (23 July 2024). "81st Venice Film Festival Selection - Guadagnino, Kurzel, Almodóvar". FirstShowing. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
3. ^ Rosser, Michael; Calnan, Ellie (September 5, 2024). "Oscars best international feature 2025: all the films submitted so far". ScreenDaily. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
4. ^ a b c d e f g "The main cast of the movie "Cloud" has been announced! Comments from the cast have also arrived". Cloud. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
5. ^ a b c d e f g h "It has been revealed that Matsushige Yutaka, who gave a brilliant performance in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's early masterpiece, will appear in this film! Eight talented supporting actors have been announced". Cloud. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
6. ^ Billington, Alex (24 April 2024). "TRAILERS Freaky First Teaser Trailer for Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'Cloud' Horror Film". First Showing. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
7. ^ "International Oscar Race: Japan Selects Venice Film 'Cloud' by Kurosawa Kiyoshi". Variety.
8. ^ "The 29th Busan International Film Festival: Selection List". Busan International Film Festival. September 3, 2024. Retrieved September 3, 2024.
9. ^ Staff, Scroll (2024-10-09). "MAMI Mumbai Film Festival will open with Payal Kapadia's 'All We Imagine as Light'". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
10. ^ "Cloud". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
11. ^ "Cloud". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
12. ^ Romero, Miguel Ángel (10 September 2024). "Sitges 2024 anuncia su programación definitiva: las mejores películas de terror que podremos ver este año". Cinemanía (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 September 2024.

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Japanese submission for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

1951–1980|

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* Gate of Hell (1954)
* Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1955)
* The Burmese Harp (1956)
* Aruse (1957)
* The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
* Fires on the Plain (1959)
* Late Autumn (1960)
* Immortal Love (1961)
* Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)
* Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963)
* Woman in the Dunes (1964)
* Kwaidan (1965)
* Lake of Tears (1966)
* Portrait of Chieko (1967)
* The Sands of Kurobe (1968)
* Profound Desires of the Gods (1969)
* The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970)
* Dodes'ka-den (1971)
* Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
* Coup d'État (1973)
* The Fossil (1974)
* Sandakan No. 8 (1975)
* Mount Hakkoda (1977)
* Empire of Passion (1978)
* Gassan (1979)
* Kagemusha (1980)

1981–2000|

* Muddy River (1981)
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2001–2020|

* Go (2001)
* Out (2002)
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* Nobody Knows (2004)
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* Shoplifters (2018)
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* True Mothers (2020)

2021–present|

* Drive My Car (2021)
* Plan 75 (2022)
* Perfect Days (2023)
* Cloud (2024)

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Films directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

* Kandagawa Pervert Wars (1983)
* Sweet Home (1989)
* The Guard from Underground (1992)
* Cure (1997)
* License to Live (1998)
* Charisma (1999)
* Séance (2000)
* Pulse (2001)
* Bright Future (2003)
* Doppelganger (2003)
* Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs (2005)
* Loft (2005)
* Retribution (2006)
* Tokyo Sonata (2008)
* Real (2013)
* Seventh Code (2013)
* 1905 (cancelled)
* Journey to the Shore (2015)
* Creepy (2016)
* Daguerrotype (2016)
* Before We Vanish (2017)
* Foreboding (2018)
* To the Ends of the Earth (2019)
* Wife of a Spy (2020)
* Cloud (2024)
* Serpent's Path (2024)

## External links

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* Cloud at IMDb

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