Final US Trailer for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘Cloud’ – Thriller from Japan
by Alex Billington
July 1, 2025
Source: YouTube
“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 the film deserves the extra attention… I’ve never seen a thriller like this! Some clever twists & turns to discover.
Here’s the official US trailer (+ final poster) for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s thriller Cloud, direct from YouTube:
You can rewatch the teaser trailer for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud right here and the full Japanese trailer.
A suspense thriller depicting “collective madness” born from a chain of hatred. A man wearing a bag mask suddenly appears in front of the main character, Yoshii. Yoshii suddenly becomes a “target” when he hears a voice saying “I’ll kill this guy” while looking at an online screen where hatred towards “Ratel” is posted. Why are you being targeted? Who are you targeting? Cloud, also known as クラウド in Japanese, is written and directed by prolific Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa, director of many films including Sweet Home, Cure, License to Live, Charisma, Pulse, Bright Future, Doppelganger, Retribution, Tokyo Sonata, Real, Seventh Code, Journey to the Shore, Creepy, Daguerrotype, Before We Vanish, To the Ends of the Earth, and Wife of a Spy previously. Produced by Tokyo Theater Nikkatsu. The film premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival in the Out of Competition section last year, and it also played at TIFF and Beyond Fest. Kurosawa’s Cloud already opened in Japan last September and the UK earlier this spring. Janus Films will debut Kurosawa’s Cloud in select US theaters starting July 18th, 2025 this summer. Visit their official site.
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