⌖ Shortlisted for the 2024 Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival
⌖ Represented Japan in the Academy Awards for Best International Film
As far back as 2001’s Pulse, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has warned of the horror-enabling powers of the internet. In the Japanese auteur’s latest psychological action thriller, the detached cruelty of internet interactions breeds violent real-world consequences. Online reseller Yoshii chases profit by ripping off everyone in carelessly callous manner. Quitting his factory job, he relocates to a lakeside house with his girlfriend to expand his business and hide from the growing legion of enemies trying to hunt him down. When online grudges accumulate to a boiling point, cyber malice morphs into ballistic madness in this wild and suspenseful microcosm of the modern digital ecosystem.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira, Amane Okayam
 | About the Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and university professor. His films are diverse in style, with his horror films being the most commercially successful. 2003 saw him enter the Official Competition of the 56th Cannes Film Festival with Bright Future, and in 2020 he was awarded the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 77th Venice Film Festival for Wife of a Spy. | |