Ryōsuke works in a factory but makes his bones as an online reseller, buying everything from medical equipment to anime action figures for low prices and selling them high. As he grows cocky and confident in his side business, Ryōsuke quits his day job and moves to a lakeside house outside the city with his girlfriend. Little does he know his calculated indifference has led to an insidious tide of resentment against him, not just from the people he has ripped off but also from peers and those close to him. As strange incidents occur around Ryōsuke, he will be faced with unknown enemies and unlikely allies.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest employs his signature formalist technique to push recurring themes of creeping societal malaise and digital paranoia in surprising directions. Cloud is an essential treatise on unchecked capitalism, hustle culture, and internet-fuelled mob mentality that remains bone-chilling even as it grows ever more surreal.

- Muhammed Deshmukh