Kiyoshi Kurosawa has spent the fall festival season dazzling critics with “Cloud,” a thriller that follows the petty feuds of a sleazy online reseller to their bloody ends in a brilliant send-up of the internet’s unique ability to connect people who would never otherwise realize that they hate each other. The film earned rave reviews after its Venice premiere on its way to being submitted as Japan’s official entry to the Academy Awards. It has received the kind of response that would be a dream come true for any filmmaker — and it’s just one of three new films that Kurosawa released this year.
The “Cure” director is basking in the aftermath of a creative hot streak. Having also unveiled “Serpent’s Path,” his gender-swapped French-language remake of his 1998 thriller of the same name and the 45-minute horror film “Chime,” he’s currently in the midst of a globetrotting...
The “Cure” director is basking in the aftermath of a creative hot streak. Having also unveiled “Serpent’s Path,” his gender-swapped French-language remake of his 1998 thriller of the same name and the 45-minute horror film “Chime,” he’s currently in the midst of a globetrotting...
- 10/11/2024
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Renowned Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa received an award for his contributions to Asian cinema at the Busan International Film Festival (Biff) in South Korea. Festival organizers gave Kurosawa the prize for Asian Filmmaker of the Year. This award recognizes the impact Kurosawa has made through his movies and his work growing the Asian film industry.
The 69-year-old director shared insights from his long career during a class at the festival. Kurosawa discussed the creative process behind his films and recent projects. He also talked about how Japanese cinema has evolved over time. Kurosawa’s psychological thriller “Cloud” shows his skill at adapting classic storylines to modern issues. The film explores how ordinary people can turn to violence in extreme situations, similar to American action movies from the 1970s.
“‘Cloud’ follows a man named Yoshii who gets caught up in a series of troubling events after problems arise from his online business,...
The 69-year-old director shared insights from his long career during a class at the festival. Kurosawa discussed the creative process behind his films and recent projects. He also talked about how Japanese cinema has evolved over time. Kurosawa’s psychological thriller “Cloud” shows his skill at adapting classic storylines to modern issues. The film explores how ordinary people can turn to violence in extreme situations, similar to American action movies from the 1970s.
“‘Cloud’ follows a man named Yoshii who gets caught up in a series of troubling events after problems arise from his online business,...
- 10/7/2024
- by Naser Nahandian
- Gazettely
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud, recently selected as Japan’s entry to the Oscars, has been sold to key territories in Asia and Europe by Nikkatsu Corporation.
The suspense thriller has been acquired for the UK and Ireland (Blue Finch Film Releasing), German-speaking Europe (Plaion Pictures Gmbh), South Korea (Media Castle) and Hong Kong/Macau (Golden Scene). They add to sales made to France, Spain, Italy and Taiwan.
The film premiered at Venice in August and went on to play Toronto. It is screening at Busan International Film Festival (Biff), where Japanese auteur Kurosawa collected the Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award on Wednesday.
The suspense thriller has been acquired for the UK and Ireland (Blue Finch Film Releasing), German-speaking Europe (Plaion Pictures Gmbh), South Korea (Media Castle) and Hong Kong/Macau (Golden Scene). They add to sales made to France, Spain, Italy and Taiwan.
The film premiered at Venice in August and went on to play Toronto. It is screening at Busan International Film Festival (Biff), where Japanese auteur Kurosawa collected the Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award on Wednesday.
- 10/4/2024
- ScreenDaily
Cloud.After four decades spent scaring moviegoers through all manner of supernatural subject matter, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has, with Cloud (2024), taken to exploring the psychological effects of a more everyday evil: capitalism. In this follow-up to his medium-length psychodrama Chime earlier this year (a film as cryptic and tantalizingly elusive as anything he’s recently endeavored), Kurosawa reconfigures a number of themes and ideas that have animated his long-running career in the horror genre, namely loneliness and the ways in which the internet can stoke malevolent forces from both within and without. Kurosawa has described Cloud as an “action film," a simultaneously apt and insufficient characterization for a movie operating on a slippery dialectical wavelength. It’s this cerebral approach to genre, rooted in the quotidian rather than otherworldly, that has led critics like Chris Fujiwara to place Kurosawa not alongside his contemporaries in the J-horror movement, but in the lineage...
- 10/4/2024
- MUBI
“Squid Game” star Lee Jung-jae was among the Korean celebrities to lead out a red carpet parade on the opening night of the 29th edition of the Busan International Film Festival. The festival kicked off Wednesday with a bright show of international solidarity and a spectacular, if controversial, Korean film from Netflix.
The ceremony, held under the semi-open roof of the futuristic Busan Cinema Center, was buoyant and attended by 4,500 guests, masking some the woes incurred by the festival itself and by the wider Korean film industry. Officials at the event debuted a new slogan — “Vision of Asia, Ocean of Cinema” — reflecting the South Korean port city’s revised ambitions ahead of next year’s 30th anniversary edition.
Last year, internal divisions ripped the festival management apart, causing sponsors to flee and a reduced budget. While some of the wounds have since been healed, replenished sponsorship and city government funds...
The ceremony, held under the semi-open roof of the futuristic Busan Cinema Center, was buoyant and attended by 4,500 guests, masking some the woes incurred by the festival itself and by the wider Korean film industry. Officials at the event debuted a new slogan — “Vision of Asia, Ocean of Cinema” — reflecting the South Korean port city’s revised ambitions ahead of next year’s 30th anniversary edition.
Last year, internal divisions ripped the festival management apart, causing sponsors to flee and a reduced budget. While some of the wounds have since been healed, replenished sponsorship and city government funds...
- 10/2/2024
- by Patrick Frater and Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
This review may contain spoilers.
2024 has been a busy year for Kiyoshi Kurosawa. This festival season, the circuit has been circulating three (!) fresh releases of his.“Chime” premiered at Berlinale, “Cloud” at Venice, “Serpent’s Path” is slated for San Sebastian. Of these, “Cloud” has been well-regarded. It has just been selected as Japan’s entry for Best International Film for the 97th Academy Awards and as of Thursday, made its North American debut at Toronto International Film Festival.
Cloud is screening at Toronto International Film Festival
Audiences buzzing with excitement greeted the film on the first night of the fest, and “Cloud” answered well in kind. The feature follows Ryosuke Yoshii (played by the indelible Masaki Suda), who quits his job as a factory worker to get into the Internet reselling business. At first, everything seems to go swimmingly. He moves to a large house in the countryside with his lover,...
2024 has been a busy year for Kiyoshi Kurosawa. This festival season, the circuit has been circulating three (!) fresh releases of his.“Chime” premiered at Berlinale, “Cloud” at Venice, “Serpent’s Path” is slated for San Sebastian. Of these, “Cloud” has been well-regarded. It has just been selected as Japan’s entry for Best International Film for the 97th Academy Awards and as of Thursday, made its North American debut at Toronto International Film Festival.
Cloud is screening at Toronto International Film Festival
Audiences buzzing with excitement greeted the film on the first night of the fest, and “Cloud” answered well in kind. The feature follows Ryosuke Yoshii (played by the indelible Masaki Suda), who quits his job as a factory worker to get into the Internet reselling business. At first, everything seems to go swimmingly. He moves to a large house in the countryside with his lover,...
- 9/8/2024
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
Horror fans, we're eatin' good (with our eyes). It's been a splendid 2024 already, and we're not even at the Halloween rush yet. Indie darlings like Shudder's "Exhuma" or "Infested" have stunned the platform's subscribers, Neon mesmerized theatergoers with "Immaculate" and "Longlegs," and studio releases like "The First Omen" or "Alien: Romulus" brought the thunder. Can we not bother with the obligatory "Horror's back, baby!" articles this October? Horror never left, horror's always en vogue, and horror's been having one heck of a year.
Like I said, Halloween still two months away. We're still staring at a whole dang slate of spooky season releases on the horizon. With titles like "Speak No Evil" or "Terrifier 3" patiently waiting, the best horror watches this year might still be on the way. Even better, we've seen some of those releases yet to come and can confirm that 2024 still has some tricks up its sleeve.
Like I said, Halloween still two months away. We're still staring at a whole dang slate of spooky season releases on the horizon. With titles like "Speak No Evil" or "Terrifier 3" patiently waiting, the best horror watches this year might still be on the way. Even better, we've seen some of those releases yet to come and can confirm that 2024 still has some tricks up its sleeve.
- 9/1/2024
- by Matt Donato
- Slash Film
Kurosawa Kiyoshi is a master of sustaining an ineffable kind of eeriness, especially when mounting horror films. His recent Chime, which is only available as a digital token, was so uncommonly disturbing in part for its long and flowing and tightly coiled shots that appeared to explicate everything in the physical space while revealing little emotional or spiritual about the characters. Kurosawa is an empathetic but unsentimental poet of the modern void.
Like Pulse and Chime, Cloud is obsessed with media-stoked alienation, and it benefits mightily from Kurosawa’s formal mastery. For half the film’s runtime, Kurosawa twists one up in dread, with menacing long shots and pregnant pauses that seem to express wells of bitterness. Said dread is intensified by the tricky and digressive narrative. There’s a tension here, consciously stoked, that’s spurred by the question of where the hell this thing is going.
Yoshii (Suda...
Like Pulse and Chime, Cloud is obsessed with media-stoked alienation, and it benefits mightily from Kurosawa’s formal mastery. For half the film’s runtime, Kurosawa twists one up in dread, with menacing long shots and pregnant pauses that seem to express wells of bitterness. Said dread is intensified by the tricky and digressive narrative. There’s a tension here, consciously stoked, that’s spurred by the question of where the hell this thing is going.
Yoshii (Suda...
- 8/31/2024
- by Chuck Bowen
- Slant Magazine
Before highlighting 40 films confirmed to be arriving in theaters this fall that you should have on your radar, we turn our attention to the festival-bound films either without distribution nor a confirmed fall release date. Looking over Venice, Toronto, the New York Film Festival, and other selections, we’ve rounded up 20 we can’t wait to see over the next few weeks.
Find our 20 most-anticipated festival premieres below and return for our reviews, as well as news if some of these hit theaters this fall.
2073 (Asif Kapadia; Venice)
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Asif Kapadia returns with what appears to be his most ambitious feature yet. Billed as a documentary thriller set in a dystopia 50 years into the future, 2073 borrows inspiration from Chris Marker’s La Jetée, in which a time-traveler attempted to save humanity after an apocalyptic World War III. The Oscar-winning director, primarily known for capturing intimate portraits of sports...
Find our 20 most-anticipated festival premieres below and return for our reviews, as well as news if some of these hit theaters this fall.
2073 (Asif Kapadia; Venice)
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Asif Kapadia returns with what appears to be his most ambitious feature yet. Billed as a documentary thriller set in a dystopia 50 years into the future, 2073 borrows inspiration from Chris Marker’s La Jetée, in which a time-traveler attempted to save humanity after an apocalyptic World War III. The Oscar-winning director, primarily known for capturing intimate portraits of sports...
- 8/26/2024
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
"You sneaky bastard." "Let's kill him." Another sneaky look at this. Tokyo Theater Nikkatsu has debuted a "full" 60-second official trailer for the Japanese film titled Cloud, which is getting a grand premiere at the 2024 Venice Film Fesitval in a week. It's one of three (!!) brand new films from prolific Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa due out in 2024. He also has another one Chime and yet another French one called Le chemin du serpent (or Path of the Snake) in post already. The tile 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,...
- 8/23/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stars: Mutsuo Yoshioka, Seiichi Kohinata, Hana Amano, Junpei Yasui, Koji Seki, Giko | Written and Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
With a lengthy filmography under his belt, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has made himself known as an exciting director with many contributions to Japanese horror. Three of his films are currently slated for release in 2024, yet it will be a surprise if either of the remaining two are stronger works than Chime.
In order to support his family, former chef Takuji Matsuoka (Mutsuo Yoshioka) has taken up a teaching job for the time being. While he aims to fill his classrooms with a calming atmosphere, that is disrupted by the strange actions of a student, Tashiro (Seiichi Kohinata). Acting as though he is in a trance, the student claims that he can hear a chime which he desperately wishes to escape the grasp of. Soon enough, Matsuoka also begins hearing the chime.
As the inverse to Matsuoka’s classrooms,...
With a lengthy filmography under his belt, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has made himself known as an exciting director with many contributions to Japanese horror. Three of his films are currently slated for release in 2024, yet it will be a surprise if either of the remaining two are stronger works than Chime.
In order to support his family, former chef Takuji Matsuoka (Mutsuo Yoshioka) has taken up a teaching job for the time being. While he aims to fill his classrooms with a calming atmosphere, that is disrupted by the strange actions of a student, Tashiro (Seiichi Kohinata). Acting as though he is in a trance, the student claims that he can hear a chime which he desperately wishes to escape the grasp of. Soon enough, Matsuoka also begins hearing the chime.
As the inverse to Matsuoka’s classrooms,...
- 7/31/2024
- by James Rodrigues
- Nerdly
At long last, we now have at least one festival premiere set for one of our most-anticipated films of the year. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Serpent’s Path, a remake of his superb, bad-vibes 1998 thriller that stars Damien Bonnard, Mathieu Amalric, Ko Shibasaki, and Drive My Car‘s Hidetoshi Nishijima, is now set for a premiere as part of San Sebastián Film Festival’s Official Selection.
Taking place September 20-28, the lineup also features the latest from Edward Berger, Gia Coppola, Costa-Gavras, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Mike Leigh, Diego Lerman, Joshua Oppenheimer, and François Ozon. While we could see Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Serpent’s Path pop up at other fall fests, it’s exciting to know it’s finally seeing the light of day.
Check out the full lineup below.
Bound In Heaven
Xin Huo (China)
Country(ies) of production: China
Cast: Ni Ni, You Zhou
This film narrates the poignant tale of a...
Taking place September 20-28, the lineup also features the latest from Edward Berger, Gia Coppola, Costa-Gavras, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Mike Leigh, Diego Lerman, Joshua Oppenheimer, and François Ozon. While we could see Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Serpent’s Path pop up at other fall fests, it’s exciting to know it’s finally seeing the light of day.
Check out the full lineup below.
Bound In Heaven
Xin Huo (China)
Country(ies) of production: China
Cast: Ni Ni, You Zhou
This film narrates the poignant tale of a...
- 7/30/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Japan’s Nikkatsu has secured key sales of Cloud, the upcoming suspense thriller by acclaimed auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa, ahead of its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
The feature has been acquired for France (Art House Films), Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Italy (Minerva Pictures) and Taiwan (Sky Digi Entertainment).
Cloud will play out of competition at Venice, which runs from August 28-September 7 and revealed its line-up today (July 23).
It will mark a return to the Lido for Kurosawa, who won the Silver Lion for best director at Venice in 2020 with Wife Of A Spy.
The story, written by Kurosawa, centres...
The feature has been acquired for France (Art House Films), Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Italy (Minerva Pictures) and Taiwan (Sky Digi Entertainment).
Cloud will play out of competition at Venice, which runs from August 28-September 7 and revealed its line-up today (July 23).
It will mark a return to the Lido for Kurosawa, who won the Silver Lion for best director at Venice in 2020 with Wife Of A Spy.
The story, written by Kurosawa, centres...
- 7/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
Veteran media and tech executive Jared Grusd has been tapped as CEO of Gracenote, Nielsen’s content-solutions division.
Grusd’s first official day at Gracenote is Monday, July 8. He reports to Nielsen CEO Karthik Rao. With Grusd taking on the role of CEO, Sujit Das Munshi — the Nielsen veteran who has led Gracenote since November 2022 as general manager — will assume the role of chief operating officer at Gracenote.
Gracenote sells entertainment metadata and connected ID solutions for content navigation and applications. Nielsen closed the acquisition of Gracenote from Tribune Media Co. in 2017.
Grusd most recently was co-founder of Ethiqly AI, a venture-backed educational technology company that uses AI “to elevate human expression and empowerment.” He previously served as chief strategy officer at banking app Chime and held the same title Snap, parent company at Snapchat. While at Snap, Grusd also served as head of content and head of international market development.
Grusd’s first official day at Gracenote is Monday, July 8. He reports to Nielsen CEO Karthik Rao. With Grusd taking on the role of CEO, Sujit Das Munshi — the Nielsen veteran who has led Gracenote since November 2022 as general manager — will assume the role of chief operating officer at Gracenote.
Gracenote sells entertainment metadata and connected ID solutions for content navigation and applications. Nielsen closed the acquisition of Gracenote from Tribune Media Co. in 2017.
Grusd most recently was co-founder of Ethiqly AI, a venture-backed educational technology company that uses AI “to elevate human expression and empowerment.” He previously served as chief strategy officer at banking app Chime and held the same title Snap, parent company at Snapchat. While at Snap, Grusd also served as head of content and head of international market development.
- 7/8/2024
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
As we approach 2024’s halfway point it’s time to take a temperature of the finest cinema thus far: we’ve rounded up our favorites from the first six months of this year, some of which have flown under the radar. Kindly note that this is based solely on U.S. theatrical and digital releases from 2024.
Check out our picks below, as organized alphabetically, followed by honorable mentions.
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
Where to begin with Bertrand Bonello’s wonderful The Beast? It’s been so gratifying to see the initial reaction to the French filmmaker’s tenth feature, after several decades of increasingly remarkable work––the majority of it dark, beautiful, and sleazy. In fact, for what a discomforting and despairing experience much of The Beast is, when I’ve thought back its moments of real, uncomplicated cinematic pleasure, its verve and sense of joyousness, are what mark my memories.
Check out our picks below, as organized alphabetically, followed by honorable mentions.
The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
Where to begin with Bertrand Bonello’s wonderful The Beast? It’s been so gratifying to see the initial reaction to the French filmmaker’s tenth feature, after several decades of increasingly remarkable work––the majority of it dark, beautiful, and sleazy. In fact, for what a discomforting and despairing experience much of The Beast is, when I’ve thought back its moments of real, uncomplicated cinematic pleasure, its verve and sense of joyousness, are what mark my memories.
- 6/11/2024
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)
Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is in a rut. He’s still trying to get a publisher to accept his latest book in a market that doesn’t exactly embrace his erudite style. His gig as a college professor lecturing to students that are too “goddamn delicate” to embrace thorny topics of race has him ostracized from colleagues. He’s estranged from family, all of whom are juggling their own issues––health problems, divorce, the financial strain that comes with both. When Monk concocts an elaborate joke to get more fame and acceptance, it’s taken shocking seriously, setting off a series of misadventures exploring how white America is more willing to accept the most reductive, pandering stories of Black...
American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)
Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is in a rut. He’s still trying to get a publisher to accept his latest book in a market that doesn’t exactly embrace his erudite style. His gig as a college professor lecturing to students that are too “goddamn delicate” to embrace thorny topics of race has him ostracized from colleagues. He’s estranged from family, all of whom are juggling their own issues––health problems, divorce, the financial strain that comes with both. When Monk concocts an elaborate joke to get more fame and acceptance, it’s taken shocking seriously, setting off a series of misadventures exploring how white America is more willing to accept the most reductive, pandering stories of Black...
- 5/17/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
What a pleasure it is to see Kiyoshi Kurosawa in his Hong Sangsoo period. The typically prolific filmmaker is having an especially verdant 2024: his medium-length Chime debuted at Berlinale to strong notices; Serpent’s Path, a remake of his 1998 feature, opens in France this June; and September 27 brings the Japanese release of a new horror feature, Cloud. Ahead of this, there’s a 30-second preview and two posters.
As previously reported, Cloud stars The Boy and the Heron‘s Masaki Suda as Ryosuke Yoshii, “an enigmatic young man who tries to make money by reselling shrewdly obtained goods on the internet under the pseudonym ‘Ratel.'” Kurosawa expanded upon this by saying,
“In the obscure corners of modern-day Japan, violent incidents sometimes occur for seemingly no reason whatsoever. When the causes are investigated, it becomes apparent that a system of sorts exists through which petty grudges and frustrations are accumulated...
As previously reported, Cloud stars The Boy and the Heron‘s Masaki Suda as Ryosuke Yoshii, “an enigmatic young man who tries to make money by reselling shrewdly obtained goods on the internet under the pseudonym ‘Ratel.'” Kurosawa expanded upon this by saying,
“In the obscure corners of modern-day Japan, violent incidents sometimes occur for seemingly no reason whatsoever. When the causes are investigated, it becomes apparent that a system of sorts exists through which petty grudges and frustrations are accumulated...
- 4/23/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Wayne Brady is known for his improv skills on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and for enticing contestants with better offers on Let’s Make a Deal.
He also shows his talents in a touring production of the classic musical, The Wiz.
The 51-year-old recently revealed several other wild jobs he had before television and is now featured as the host of an intriguing group experiment.
While contestants can receive cash prizes for those deals, Pay Progress Forward relies on a group’s generosity to determine whether they win.
A new YouTube video begins with the notion that many Americans live “paycheck to paycheck.”
However, the financial technology company Chime believes its experiment will show that struggling individuals want to help others in addition to themselves.
Wayne Brady hosts Chime’s group experiment
“You can either double your money, or you can pay it forward. Which would you like to do?...
He also shows his talents in a touring production of the classic musical, The Wiz.
The 51-year-old recently revealed several other wild jobs he had before television and is now featured as the host of an intriguing group experiment.
While contestants can receive cash prizes for those deals, Pay Progress Forward relies on a group’s generosity to determine whether they win.
A new YouTube video begins with the notion that many Americans live “paycheck to paycheck.”
However, the financial technology company Chime believes its experiment will show that struggling individuals want to help others in addition to themselves.
Wayne Brady hosts Chime’s group experiment
“You can either double your money, or you can pay it forward. Which would you like to do?...
- 3/26/2024
- by Matt Couden
- Monsters and Critics
How do you even start to write about Chime, a film that keeps secrets guarded and lives off the shocks of its knife-edge turns? It’s safe to say the director is Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It’s also safe to say Chime is 45 minutes long, making it feel more like the pilot for a TV series we’ll never see––only adding to the intrigue. Like much of the director’s work, it’s the kind of thing you could have seen late night on television when you were much too young. It would have also left a mark.
The story follows Matsuoka (Mutsuo Yoshioka), a strick-ish teacher at a culinary school, where the story begins. We’re in a classroom where nothing seems out-of-the-ordinary, the usual washing and slicing, then Kurosawa draws your attention to one student at the back, Tashiro, who seems to be working erratically, chopping onions in...
The story follows Matsuoka (Mutsuo Yoshioka), a strick-ish teacher at a culinary school, where the story begins. We’re in a classroom where nothing seems out-of-the-ordinary, the usual washing and slicing, then Kurosawa draws your attention to one student at the back, Tashiro, who seems to be working erratically, chopping onions in...
- 3/21/2024
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Update: the first poster for and a new image from Serpent’s Path are below, courtesy Cinefil, which lists the French release date as June 14. Sounds like a Cannes premiere to us!
Few directors loom over 2024 like Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who’s expected to debut two films these next twelve months. We just learned of Chime, a genre-bending Japanese feature, and for some time have anticipated Serpent’s Path, a remake of his (fantastic) 1998 horror thriller that’s set to star Damien Bonnard and Ko Shibasaki (The Boy and the Heron). Today brings a major update courtesy the financier Tax Shelter, who’ve shared three stills featuring Mathieu Amalric (previously of Kurosawa’s Daguerrotype) and Claire Denis regular Grégoire Colin, while further digging has revealed the involvement of Michaël Vander-Meiren.
Though it had been reported this new Serpent’s Path (perhaps officially subtitled La vengeance du serpent) would be female-led, Tax Shelter’s synopsis...
Few directors loom over 2024 like Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who’s expected to debut two films these next twelve months. We just learned of Chime, a genre-bending Japanese feature, and for some time have anticipated Serpent’s Path, a remake of his (fantastic) 1998 horror thriller that’s set to star Damien Bonnard and Ko Shibasaki (The Boy and the Heron). Today brings a major update courtesy the financier Tax Shelter, who’ve shared three stills featuring Mathieu Amalric (previously of Kurosawa’s Daguerrotype) and Claire Denis regular Grégoire Colin, while further digging has revealed the involvement of Michaël Vander-Meiren.
Though it had been reported this new Serpent’s Path (perhaps officially subtitled La vengeance du serpent) would be female-led, Tax Shelter’s synopsis...
- 3/20/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Much as Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s new film Chime, soon to debut in Berlin, might not fulfill every wish for being only 45 minutes long, it’s perhaps time to adjust expectations––just slightly––around Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me. Though we’re deeply excited about a career-spanning film memoir, he recently told the Festival du Cine de Lima it’s an “essay” film that runs “under an hour.” Not quite what early reports suggested, but it’s best to trust the runtime comes with reason.
That said: we may be getting a new feature before long, at least faster than Carax’s every-eight-to-twelve-years pace. Speaking to AnOther Magazine, Juliette Binoche––collaborator on his early classics Mauvais Sang and Lovers on the Bridge––revealed Carax “has a new project with Adam Driver.” Which is about the deepest details go, though likely that’ll change soon; while it’s possible she...
That said: we may be getting a new feature before long, at least faster than Carax’s every-eight-to-twelve-years pace. Speaking to AnOther Magazine, Juliette Binoche––collaborator on his early classics Mauvais Sang and Lovers on the Bridge––revealed Carax “has a new project with Adam Driver.” Which is about the deepest details go, though likely that’ll change soon; while it’s possible she...
- 2/14/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Look out, Hong Sangsoo. Your distinction as the most prolific director working today is being challenged. It’s been nearly four years since Kiyoshi Kurosawa last released a film with 2020’s Wife of a Spy, but in 2024, the Japanese director will make up for lost time, premiering a trio of new films.
As featured in our 2024 preview, he remade his own film with Serpent’s Path, starring Damien Bonnard, Mathieu Amalric, Grégoire Colin, and Ko Shibasaki. Before that feature sets its premiere, his 45-minute thriller Chime will debut at Berlinale this month. Now, a third 2024 film has been unveiled with Cloud.
Screen Daily reports he’s already finished shooting the project, with the first still featured above, and is in the editing process with a Japanese release planned for this September. Backed by Nikkatsu Corporation and Tokyo Theatres Company Inc., the Kurosawa-scripted project stars The Boy and the Heron‘s Masaki Suda as Ryosuke Yoshii,...
As featured in our 2024 preview, he remade his own film with Serpent’s Path, starring Damien Bonnard, Mathieu Amalric, Grégoire Colin, and Ko Shibasaki. Before that feature sets its premiere, his 45-minute thriller Chime will debut at Berlinale this month. Now, a third 2024 film has been unveiled with Cloud.
Screen Daily reports he’s already finished shooting the project, with the first still featured above, and is in the editing process with a Japanese release planned for this September. Backed by Nikkatsu Corporation and Tokyo Theatres Company Inc., the Kurosawa-scripted project stars The Boy and the Heron‘s Masaki Suda as Ryosuke Yoshii,...
- 2/13/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who won best director at Venice in 2020 with Wife Of A Spy, is working on a new suspense thriller titled Cloud, which will be introduced to buyers at the EFM by Japanese studio Nikkatsu Corporation.
The feature is in post-production with a Japanese release set for September 2024. A first look at the film can be seen above.
Written by Kurosawa, the story centres on Ryosuke Yoshii, an enigmatic young man who tries to make money by reselling shrewdly obtained goods on the internet under the pseudonym ‘Ratel’.
The film stars Masaki Suda, who won best actor...
The feature is in post-production with a Japanese release set for September 2024. A first look at the film can be seen above.
Written by Kurosawa, the story centres on Ryosuke Yoshii, an enigmatic young man who tries to make money by reselling shrewdly obtained goods on the internet under the pseudonym ‘Ratel’.
The film stars Masaki Suda, who won best actor...
- 2/12/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Strangers’ Case from American filmmaker Brandt Andersen and starring French actor Omar Sy will make its world premiere at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
The film’s short synopsis reads: Tragedy strikes a Syrian family in Aleppo, starting a chain reaction of events involving five different families in four different countries.
The pic is among a trio of late additions to the Berlinale Special sidebar, announced this morning by the festival. Also showing in Berlin are the two mid-length Japanese films Chime by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and August My Heaven by Riho Kudo.
Chime follows Tashiro, a student at a culinary school, who hears voices in his head. His teacher, Matsuoka, remains unconcerned. But then Tashiro claims that a machine has replaced half of his brain. August My Heaven follows Joe, who earns a living as a professional stand-in actor for hire to play a relative, lover, or friend...
The film’s short synopsis reads: Tragedy strikes a Syrian family in Aleppo, starting a chain reaction of events involving five different families in four different countries.
The pic is among a trio of late additions to the Berlinale Special sidebar, announced this morning by the festival. Also showing in Berlin are the two mid-length Japanese films Chime by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and August My Heaven by Riho Kudo.
Chime follows Tashiro, a student at a culinary school, who hears voices in his head. His teacher, Matsuoka, remains unconcerned. But then Tashiro claims that a machine has replaced half of his brain. August My Heaven follows Joe, who earns a living as a professional stand-in actor for hire to play a relative, lover, or friend...
- 1/25/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2024Berlin Film Festival has added Brandt Andersen’s refugee drama The Strangers’ Case, featuring French superstar Omar Sy (Lupin) to its official lineup. The drama, about a tragedy that strikes a Syrian family in Aleppo, triggering a chain reaction of events that impact five different families across four countries, will screen in the Berlinale Special sidebar at this year’s festival, which runs Feb. 15-25. Jason Beghe and Yasmine Al Massri co-star in the film’s ensemble cast.
Berlin on Thursday also added two mid-length Japanese films to its Berlinale Specials lineup: Chime by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Tokyo Sonata) and August My Heaven by Riho Kudo (Orphan’s Blues). Chime follows a student at a culinary school who begins to hear voices and becomes convinced half of his brain has been replaced by a machine. August My Heaven centers on Joe, a professional stand-in actor who is hired by clients to play their friend,...
Berlin on Thursday also added two mid-length Japanese films to its Berlinale Specials lineup: Chime by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Tokyo Sonata) and August My Heaven by Riho Kudo (Orphan’s Blues). Chime follows a student at a culinary school who begins to hear voices and becomes convinced half of his brain has been replaced by a machine. August My Heaven centers on Joe, a professional stand-in actor who is hired by clients to play their friend,...
- 1/25/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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