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Toronto International Film Festival : Exclusive Interview with Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa

©2024 “CLOUD” FILM PARTNERS Cloud : The story centers on Ryosuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda), a factory worker in Tokyo who makes extra money reselling goods online under a pseudonym. After a successful stint, he quits his job and relocates to the countryside with his girlfriend, hiring a local young man to help with his reselling…

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Revisits His Own Film, “Serpent’s Path” for His Latest film, Le chemin du serpent

(C)2024 CINEFRANCE STUDIOS – KADOKAWA CORPORATION – TARANTULA The scenes from the film “Le chemin du serpent”(“Serpent’s Path”) starring Kou Shibasaki have been released, which is helmed by “Wife of a Spy” Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa.  This is Kurosawa’s first attempt at a self-remake of his masterpiece suspense film “Serpent’s Path (1998),” which has been remade…

Wife of a Spy / Japan Cuts : An Exclusive Interview with Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa 

Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Cure, Tokyo Sonata) won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller shot in stunning 8K. Synopsis : The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku…

Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s ‘Cloud’ To Be Japan’s 2025 Oscar Submission

(C) 2024 Cloud Production Committee.  Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Cloud has been officially selected as Japan’s submission for Best International Feature Film in the 97th Academy Awards competition. The film follows the fate of a young man named Yoshi Ryosuke (played by Masaki Suda) who makes a living buying and selling merchandise online using the pseudonym of…

TIFF: Paying for the Past in Japan’s Oscar Entry ‘Cloud’

Actions are rarely without consequences, even if takes a while for them to materialize. One unfortunate or regrettable decision may bring with it an undue and disproportionate response, but a pattern of illegal or unethical behavior will eventually incur some sort of justice, even if it’s merely cosmic and not literal or cut-and-dry. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s…

Great Absence Review: Lost Memory and Japanese Excellence

I’ll remember it all. Though I won’t recall it. The words echo in the theater and a man’s androgynous face makes expressive grimaces on a large screen. In front of it, the same man, long haired with sideboards, moves down in fright, like he’s detaching himself. Just before, a police squad has arrived at a house…

French Director Leos Carax’s Next Project: ‘It’s Not Me,’ an Autobiopic

© 2012 – Pierre Grise Productions French director Leos Carax’s next project, It’s Not Me, is an autobiographical film that will star Denis Lavant, who has been the leading man in several of his previous movies, including Boy Meets Girl, Bad Blood, Lovers on the Bridge, and Holy Motors. It’s also been rumored that Adam Driver…

THE ACA Cinema Project & Japan Society : Family Portrait: Japanese Family in Flux

Her Love Boils Bathwater © 2016 “Her Love Boils Bathwater” Film Partners  “FAMILY PORTRAIT: JAPANESE FAMILY IN FLUX”  FILM SERIES SHOWCASES COMPLEX FAMILY BONDS OF THE MODERN JAPANESE FAMILY IN THE 8TH EDITION OF THE ACA CINEMA PROJECT                   Presented by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of…

“Remembering Every Night” : Exclusive Interview with Director Yui Kiyohara 

Yui Kiyohara studied under directors Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Atsuhiko Suwa. Her first feature film “Our House,” shot as a graduation project for the graduate school of Tokyo University of the Arts, won the Grand Prix at the Pia Film Festival 2017, and she has received a string of invitations from abroad, including the Berlin International…

NYAFF : Exclusive Interview with Director Takumi Saito on “Home Sweet Home

Actor Takumi Saito directs this film adaptation of Rinko Kozu’s horror suspense novel “Sweet My Home,” which won the 13th Shosetsu Gendai Feature Film Newcomer Award in 2018. Synopsis : Kenji Kiyosawa, a sports instructor, buys the house of his dreams for his beloved wife and young daughter. The house, which heats the entire house…