August 7 – 9, 2025
Cloud
A stylish, subversive thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse), concerning Yoshii, an ambitious, yet directionless, young factory worker from Tokyo who side hustles in the murky realm of black market reselling, cheating buyers and sellers alike. After swindling his way into loads of cash, Yoshii gradually attempts to disconnect from humanity, moving out of the city, shunning his girlfriend, and entrusting duties to his new, devoted assistant. Before long his life is plagued by a series of mysterious, sinister incidents that threaten to upend his success and bring about a most violent demise. A master of carefully simmering tension to a bloody crescendo, Kurosawa delivers a searing portrait of digital greed and vengeance.
Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa / 2025 / Japanese with English subtitles / 124 min
“That tension between modes [of realism and online fantasy] gives Cloud tremendous visceral and intellectual force…” – Justin Chang, The New Yorker
“For all of his genre-bending on display, Kurosawa is interested in something more real and more dark about humanity’s capacity for greed and bitterness, and the quiet ways that the internet can further mutate those diseases in us.” – Brandon Yu, New York Times
“A brisk film that leaves one pondering its themes, especially what it means to live in an era when nothing is real.” – Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
SCREENING: THU 8/7 4PM; FRI 8/8 7PM; SAT 8/9 4PM
$13 GA & $10 OFS. Tickets are available at the box office 30 minutes before showtimes.
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