“You don’t sell anything dubious, do you?” Janus Films has debuted their own final official US trailer for Cloud, the unconventional Japanese thriller from acclaimed filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (also of Cure, Pulse) – set for a US release this summer. We also posted two Japanese trailers for this last year during its premiere at the 2024 Venice Film Festival (one of my favorites of the fest). The title 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 as Ryôsuke Yoshii, 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. We keep posting all of the trailers for this because this film deserves the extra attention… I’ve never seen a thriller like this! Some clever twists & turns to discover. // Continue Reading ›

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