Japan Cuts XVIII Review: In CLOUD, Money Is The Root Of All Evil
Part of Japan Cuts 2025, CLOUD is now available from Janus Films.
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CLOUD: Catch The Buzzy U.S. Trailer For Kiyoshi Kursoawa’s New Thriller Coming In July
Opening in theaters July 18!
SERPENT’S PATH Teaser Reveals Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Latest Revenge Thriller Revamp
With upcoming horror Chime also in the pipeline, director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is now off and about as Kadokawa ramps up its promo on his latest crime thriller, Serpent’s Path. The film is a remake of Kurosawa’s 1998 Sho Aikawa starrer, and now employs a French-language framework that accomodates Poor Things and The Edge Of The Blade actor Damien Bonnard, along with actress Kou Shibasaki from Don’t Call it Mystery: The Movie and The Three Sisters Of Tenmasou. In the suburbs of Paris, Albert, a freelance reporter, vows to take revenge for the brutal murder of his young daughter while Sayoko, a Japanese female doctor, assists him in his quest for revenge. With Sayoko’s skillful guidance, the two get closer to the truth behind Albert’s daughter’s death, but it turns out that a mysterious cult and human traffickers are involved in the case. When they finally get close to the truth, […]
Japan Cuts XV Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s WIFE OF A SPY, War And Strategy Amid Matrimony
If you’ve seen your fair share of WWII movies, it’s no real mystery the challenges that lie ahead for our main characters going into Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s new period drama, Wife Of A Spy. The 1940s were a trip as world governments collided, and dehumanizing atrocities were taking shape at the hands of countries like Germany, and of course, Japan. Kurosawa nimbly crafts his story around these events, inviting viewers into a character study, specifically of one woman who, despite all her daily exuberance at life and subservience to her husband, gets thrust into confronting her own identity when she learns a horrific truth for herself, and her husband’s flummoxing role in it all. Our story begins in 1940, just as a British businessman gets accosted and taken by Japanese authorities from a raw silk firm in Kobe, where Yusaku Fukuhara (Issey Takahashi) manages a trading post. His pastimes occasionally include […]