Cloud
Genre
DRAMA
Release Date
9 Jan 2025 (Thu)
Category
IIB (HK), ---(Macau)
Running Time
124 Minutes
Language
Japanese
Subtitle
Chinese and English
Director
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast
Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira, Amane Okayam
Synopsis
As far back as 2001’s Pulse, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has warned of the horror-enabling powers of the internet. In the Japanese auteur’s latest psychological action thriller, the detached cruelty of internet interactions breeds violent real-world consequences. Online reseller Yoshii chases profit by ripping off everyone in carelessly callous manner. Quitting his factory job, he relocates to a lakeside house with his girlfriend to expand his business and hide from the growing legion of enemies trying to hunt him down. When online grudges accumulate to a boiling point, cyber malice morphs into ballistic madness in this wild and suspenseful microcosm of the modern digital ecosystem.
As far back as 2001’s Pulse, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has warned of the horror-enabling powers of the internet. In the Japanese auteur’s latest psychological action thriller, the detached cruelty of internet interactions breeds violent real-world consequences. Online reseller Yoshii chases profit by ripping off everyone in carelessly callous manner. Quitting his factory job, he relocates to a lakeside house with his girlfriend to expand his business and hide from the growing legion of enemies trying to hunt him down. When online grudges accumulate to a boiling point, cyber malice morphs into ballistic madness in this wild and suspenseful microcosm of the modern digital ecosystem.
