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‘Cloud’ Review: An Online Grift Has IRL Consequences in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Compellingly Wonky Thriller
An online reseller gets doxxed and absurdist retribution ensues in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest intriguingly unconventional genre foray, "Cloud."
Erratic, prolific Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa(“Pulse,” “Cure”) has, at his best, a peculiar genius for finding strangeness — often malevolence — gathering like dust in the shadowy corners of banal modern life. Instead, Yoshii doubles down on his solo e-selling instincts and moves out of his cramped apartment into a spacious, secluded lake house that he pretends to Akiko is a lifestyle choice but is really just a bigger base of operations. Until this point, the drama has been loosely plausible, unfolding in a realist register enriched by DP Yasuyuki Sasaki’s classy cinematography, which makes even the most prosaic, underfurnished backdrop rich with shadow and lurking peril.
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