{"id":17546,"date":"2025-05-31T21:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17546"},"modified":"2025-05-31T19:28:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T23:28:56","slug":"cloud-2024-kiyoshi-kurosawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17546","title":{"rendered":"Cloud (2024, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryosuke and Akiko are a young couple driven by money (he&#8217;s new, she starred in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14528\">Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy<\/a><\/em>).  He quits his factory job to get rich buying junk (like pricey Sailor Moon snowglobes) and reselling it online, guided by schoolmate Muraoka (the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13470\">First Love<\/a><\/em> guy) and with help from very loyal assistant Sano.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/cloud1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>But somebody is after him from the beginning, laying tripwires in his bike path and throwing car parts through his window, and soon his online identity gets doxxed and a gang of aggrieved customers who got ripped off by his fake designer handbags are after him, breaking into his house and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16554\">Serpent&#8217;s Path<\/a><\/em>-ing him for revenge.  I&#8217;m not sure what all this double-crossing gun intrigue adds up to, besides the dreamlike final scene which spells out that unchecked greed will lead you to hell.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Arkanoid Conspiracy:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/cloud2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Vadim Rizov <a href=\"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/127103-tiff-2024-reviews-kiyoshi-kurosawa-cloud-joshua-oppehnheimer-the-end\/\">in Filmmaker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sound mix elevates the humming of Yoshii\u2019s computer monitor, as if the digitally transmitted virus of <em>Pulse<\/em> were still going strong years later. The inexplicable proliferation of evil is often Kurosawa\u2019s beat, which can help explain the derangement exhibited by Yoshii\u2019s enemies, a portrayal of capitalism\u2019s deleterious effects as ethics-overriding brainworms. Maintaining a surface tonal grimness while turning the screws on Yoshii, <em>Cloud<\/em> is nonetheless one of Kurosawa\u2019s goofier outings, full of manic outbursts and violence whose extravagance borders on comic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryosuke and Akiko are a young couple driven by money (he&#8217;s new, she starred in Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy). He quits his factory job to get rich buying junk (like pricey Sailor Moon snowglobes) and reselling it online, guided by schoolmate Muraoka (the First Love guy) and with help from very loyal assistant Sano. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,1629,36,176,144,1774],"class_list":["post-17546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-capitalism","tag-japan","tag-kiyoshi-kurosawa","tag-revenge","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17604,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17546\/revisions\/17604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}