Sideshow and Janus Films have picked up all North American rights to Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest flick Cloud.
Cloud debuted at last year’s Venice Film Festival before playing Tokyo and Beyond Fest. Sideshow and Janus Films have set the film for a summer 2025 theatrical release.
Starring Masaki Suda, the film is a thriller that follows a young man named Yoshii who resells goods online and ends up triggering a series of mysterious events, blurring the boundaries between the online and offline worlds.
The deal was negotiated by Sideshow and Janus Films with the Nikkatsu Corporation. Producers are Yumi Arakawa, Yuki Nishimiya, and Nobuhiro Iizuka. The film was produced by Nikkatsu and Django Film Corporation.
“Cloud is a wildly entertaining film about our anonymous digital existence that transforms itself into a vengeance-driven action flick that only Kiyoshi Kurosawa could have dreamed up,” Sideshow and Janus Films said in a statement. “We are proud to work with Nikkatsu to bring what we consider one of Kurosawa’s best films to American audiences this summer.”
Sideshow and Janus Films currently have three films out on release: Payal Kapadia’s awards frontrunner All We Imagine As Light, Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow, and Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio.
Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light was the first Indian film in Cannes Competition in 30 years where it won the Grand Prix. Since then it won the NYFCC, LAFCA, and NSFC awards for Best International Film. The film was nominated for that same prize by the Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards, and Critics Choice. Kapadia also made history as the first Indian director nominated for Best Director at the Golden Globes, an award she won from the National Society of Film Critics. She’s also nominated for Best First-Time Director by the DGA.
