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Ep. 333: Kiyoshi Kurosawa on his new film Cloud, life, lighting, casting, and the last thing he saw

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. Cloud is the new film by director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose unique career includes the films Cure, Pulse, and Tokyo Sonata. Cloud follows an internet reseller (Masaki Suda) who becomes targeted for murder by a band of customers he has played a little too fast and loose with. It’s suffused with the air of menace that the director excels at creating, but situated in an actual cutthroat world of extremely online internet resellers. Kurosawa has said it’s partly inspired by a true story of an internet-inspired killing, and partly by his desire to shoot an action movie, particularly with characters who are (relatively) ordinary people. As a longtime fan of his work, I felt especially fortunate to speak with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa about Cloud and his work generally. Thank you to Monika Uchiyama for translation.

Cloud is in theaters now and had its world premiere in the Venice film festival last fall. It was the centerpiece film at the Japan Society’s annual festival Japan Cuts, where director Kiyoshi Kurosawa was honored with the Cut Above Award for his outstanding achievements in cinema. 

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Ep. 333: Kiyoshi Kurosawa on his new film Cloud, life, lighting, casting, and the last thing he saw

Pitiful ~『harenuki』

Released 7-20-25

There is no beat in this instrumental so just flow, relax, and calm your mind down

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WAR!

Zatoichi's Koan

ROPPONGI NEON LIGHTS
Written, Produced, Arranged, Mixed by fuujii⁶⁴

ROPPONGI

Squalor

夏休みの国

An 11-year-old FL studio ambient-hype beat producer from Albany, GA. She is mostly addressed by "siouxxii," born on April 3, 2014. In summer 2023, she started singing on Bandlab and released 4 albums. In late 2024, she stopped singing and started producing because she decided that she  no longer wanted to sing anymore.

When she started to produce music, she learned about music theory, like the C major scale and the C minor scale. She also learned about the Camelot wheel.

Her dream is to be big and travel to Brazil. 

My brother @chxnskii is my first fan - siouxxii


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Critic Nicolas Rapold talks with guests about the movies they've been watching. From home viewing to the latest from festivals and retrospectives. Named one of the 10 Best Film Podcasts by Sight & Sound magazine. Guests include critics, curators, and filmmakers.

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