I was totally blown away by Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2024 film Cloud, which starred Masaki Suda. It starts slow, Suda plays Ryosuke, a quiet online reseller who spends his days flipping fake goods and ignoring the people he hurts. There’s something so empty about him, and Kurosawa leans into that silence, letting the stillness make you uncomfortable. (Cloud Review).

At first, I thought I was watching a typical modern drama about isolation and greed. But halfway through, it flips hard. Buyers show up, things spiral fast, and suddenly it’s a full-blown action thriller with dark, almost ridiculous humor. I couldn’t stop watching. It felt like two completely different movies stitched together, but somehow it worked.

The shift is so sudden it almost feels like a joke, but there’s real meaning under all the madness. Kurosawa isn’t just having fun, he’s pointing at the world we live in, where everything’s fast, fake, and disposable, including people.

It’s weird, bold, and honestly one of the most entertaining Japanese films I’ve seen in a while. By the end, I wasn’t sure whether to laugh, be disturbed, or just accept that yeah, maybe this is exactly where we’re all headed.