Cloud – Watch the new trailer for the thriller from Kiyoshi Kurosawa

From filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Cure, Tokyo Sonata), Cloud is a suspenseful thriller exposing terrors lurking within our modern web-based society, in which hidden malice runs wild.

A stylish, subversive thriller 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, he becomes slowly disconnected to humanity, moving out of the city, shunning his girlfriend, and hiring a devoted assistant. But after a series of mysterious, sinister incidents occur, he begins to suspect his former victims could be plotting the ultimate revenge. A master of carefully simmering tension to a bloody crescendo, Kurosawa delivers a searing portrait of digital greed and vengeance.

Acclaimed filmmaker Kurosawa (Winner: Cannes Un Certain Regard Award, Journey to the Shore and Tokyo Sonata; Venice Silver Lion Best Director Award, Wife of a Spy) depicted digital terrors as far back as his early cult hit Pulse in which the web became a conduit for otherworldly spirits. Now, he presents the horror of internet-incubated insanity reaching a critical point and running wild in reality, as Cloud penetrates the chaos of society today.

Cloud is in US cinemas from 18th July.