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Kiyoshi Kurosawa is known for his notable contributions to Japanese and psychological horror. The veteran director, screenwriter, and author's plots rarely fall short of clear storytelling, leading audiences directly to the meaning of his productions. Kurosawa's 2024 psychological thriller Cloudwas added to his list of hits, and now the film is finally on its way to U.S. theaters. According to Deadline, the critically acclaimed film is set to open in theaters on Jul. 18.

Cloud was released by Sideshow and Janus Films. It will first open in New York City and then in Los Angeles on July 25 before rolling out nationwide. The plot focuses on a young factory worker (Yoshii) who finds success as a reseller. He's ambitious yet directionless, and eventually becomes greedy, cheating both buyers and sellers in the black market and gaining a lot of money in the process. Yoshii gets too deep into his side hustle and begins isolating himself from humanity.

Exclusive: Cloud, written and directed by Japanese veteran director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, will open in U.S. theaters on July 18.

Released by Sideshow and Janus Films, the film will open in New York on July 18, followed by Los Angeles on July 25, before kicking off a nationwide rollout.

The film stars Masaki Suda (The Boy and the Heron), Kotone Furukawa (Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy), Daiken Okudaira, Amane Okayama, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa and Masataka Kubota.

Cloud premiered at the Venice Film Festival, played at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was also Japan’s selection for the Oscars.

After releasing Kurosawa’s Cloud, Janus Films is also set to release Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day in the fall.

Produced by Japan’s Nikkatsu, the thriller follows Yoshii, an ambitious, yet directionless, young factory worker from Tokyo, who side-hustles in black market reselling, cheating both buyers and sellers. After swindling his way into loads of cash,...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is back with one of his boldest films yet — Cloud — a genre-bending thriller that starts as a swindler drama and spirals into a surreal, suspense-filled ride through stalker horror, home invasion, and full-blown action. Starring Masaki Suda as a morally bankrupt reseller and Kotone Furukawa as his gold-digging partner, Cloud is both a biting satire of online capitalism and a strange meditation on revenge, karma, and connection in the digital age.

In this review, we break down Kurosawa’s vision, the film’s wild tonal shifts, the unforgettable character of Sano (Daiken Okudaira), and why Cloud just might be one of the most underrated cinematic surprises of the year.

Watch till the end for our verdict — is Cloud a masterpiece or a misfire?

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Cloud is in cinemas from 25 April from from Blue...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is back with one of his boldest films yet — Cloud — a genre-bending thriller that starts as a swindler drama and spirals into a surreal, suspense-filled ride through stalker horror, home invasion, and full-blown action.

Starring Masaki Suda as a morally bankrupt reseller and Kotone Furukawa as his gold-digging partner, Cloud is both a biting satire of online capitalism and a strange meditation on revenge, karma, and connection in the digital age.

In this review, we break down Kurosawa’s vision, the film’s wild tonal shifts, the unforgettable character of Sano (Daiken Okudaira), and why Cloud just might be one of the most underrated cinematic surprises of the year.

Watch till the end for our verdict — is Cloud a masterpiece or a misfire? Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and drop a comment on your favorite moment or character!

Cloud is in cinemas from 25 April from from Blue...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Cloud” offers a harrowing social critique through a keenly observed character study of a young man bored by his life. He hates employment and seeks freedom. So, he pursues a path with the easiest and the finest returns. Although this sounds like a bulk of youth, Kursoawa’s script paints his portrait with an undeniable specificity. While being a taut psychological thriller, it offers a lot to unpack within its two hours of runtime. Let’s break down these themes and get the ending explained.

Spoilers ahead.

Cloud Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis

“Cloud” is a Japanese psychological thriller, written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who’s widely known for his work on the crime horror classic, “Cure.”

What happens in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud?

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Cloud” follows Ryosuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda), who is stuck in a dead-end blue-collar job at a factory. One day, his...

As if the upcoming edition of the Overlook Film Festival , taking place April 3 – April 6 in New Orleans, Louisiana, wasn’t stacked enough, the festival announced today the full schedule, including some surprise new films and live events.

The full festival schedule can be found at overlookfilmfest.com/schedule.

The new additions to the lineup bring the festival total to 56 films (34 features and 22 shorts) from 15 countries, as well as twelve live events and four immersive experiences, making this the largest Overlook lineup in the festival’s nine year history.

“This year’s giant lineup brings into focus all of the ways we love to be scared, regardless of what flavor of spooky is your jam” said Sheryl Santacruz, festival director of The Overlook Film Festival. “We can’t wait to join with the greatest, most dedicated genre fans in the world to celebrate this sensation that we all love in ways that we never imagined possible,...

“Cloud,” the action thriller from director Kiyoshi Kurosawa that was Japan’s official submission for the 97th Oscars, has been acquired for North American release by Sideshow and Janus Films, IndieWire has learned exclusively.

“Cloud” made its world premiere out of competition at Venice in 2024 and also played Toronto, Fantastic Fest, Beyond Fest, the Busan International Film Festival, and many more. The film failed to make the cut for the Best International Feature shortlist at the Oscars this year, but the title was widely acclaimed and will now be released theatrically in summer 2025. In fact, IndieWire listed it among the year’s Best Undistributed Films.

“Cloud” stars Masaki Suda as a sleazy online reseller of junk and fake goods who is obsessed with making a profit and the thrill of making money in real time. But after turning down a promotion at his day job, he’s approached with a...

In Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Cloud” (Original title: Kuraudo), anyone is capable of hiding secrets that stun and shock. Gradually, however, they spill out in an angry, vicious bid for self-preservation. But this film is a unique, diverting offering from the director whose career revels in unnerving sensations that create lasting dents in the mind. Here, however, he swaps those bone-chilling effects for a film that slinks into action thriller terrain in oblique ways initially before fully blowing out.

The seemingly placid Yoshii (Masaki Suda) has a job at a factory but he’s more invested in his online e-resell pursuit. That gives him quick money though he grows dissatisfied and aches to maximize his scam fortune. Despite a promotion at the factory, he quits and relocates to the countryside where he puts himself deeper into the online auction of fake products. Naturally swindling at the rapid progression that he does...

Writer-director Kiyoshi Kurosawa returns with this movie, “Cloud,” along with his 50-minuter horror-thriller revisionist “Chime” and the French remake of “Serpent’s Path” to treat the audiences waiting for him for four years since his period-thriller, “Wife of a Spy.” Genre-bending may be a good cinephiliac way to describe “Cloud”, but what Kurosawa achieves in this movie is not to merely bend and shift, but to stack genres one after the other. Or more accurately, to chain genres, in a way that his treatment goes back and forth after each one.

Cloud is screening at Hawai’i International Film Festival

Similar to the decision to have “Chime” run at merely short of an hour, the genre-chain is gutsy, risky, and at times imbalanced. But it is tricky over all: are we to trust Mr. Kurosawa because he is Mr. Kurosawa to treat his film in this way and not fail? But...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud, recently selected as Japan’s entry to the Oscars, has been sold to key territories in Asia and Europe by Nikkatsu Corporation.

The suspense thriller has been acquired for the UK and Ireland (Blue Finch Film Releasing), German-speaking Europe (Plaion Pictures Gmbh), South Korea (Media Castle) and Hong Kong/Macau (Golden Scene). They add to sales made to France, Spain, Italy and Taiwan.

The film premiered at Venice in August and went on to play Toronto. It is screening at Busan International Film Festival (Biff), where Japanese auteur Kurosawa collected the Asian Filmmaker of the Year Award on Wednesday.

Cloud.After four decades spent scaring moviegoers through all manner of supernatural subject matter, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has, with Cloud (2024), taken to exploring the psychological effects of a more everyday evil: capitalism. In this follow-up to his medium-length psychodrama Chime earlier this year (a film as cryptic and tantalizingly elusive as anything he’s recently endeavored), Kurosawa reconfigures a number of themes and ideas that have animated his long-running career in the horror genre, namely loneliness and the ways in which the internet can stoke malevolent forces from both within and without. Kurosawa has described Cloud as an “action film," a simultaneously apt and insufficient characterization for a movie operating on a slippery dialectical wavelength. It’s this cerebral approach to genre, rooted in the quotidian rather than otherworldly, that has led critics like Chris Fujiwara to place Kurosawa not alongside his contemporaries in the J-horror movement, but in the lineage...

Although Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa is best known for his horror films like Cure and Pulse, recent years have seen him operate in more dramatic territory. Kurosawa’s latest outing, Cloud, sees the filmmaker both return to form and push himself in exciting new ways, resulting in one of the most gripping thrillers of the year.

Cloud Review

Cloud follows a young man who makes a living reselling goods online — sometimes not in the most ethical ways — as he finds himself fighting for his life after a series of mysterious events occur. Although this seems like a simple premise, Kurosawa makes the most of it, adding plenty of intrigue to the movie in its just-over-two-hour runtime.

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The 2024 Venice Film Festival kicked off August 28 with the long-awaited Tim Burton-Michael Keaton sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opening the 81th edition, which runs through September 7 on the Lido. Deadline is on the ground to watch all the key films.

The lineup for the world’s oldest fest also includes world premieres of Todd Phillips’ Joaquin Phoenix-Lady Gaga pic Joker: Folie à Deux, Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Pablo Larrain’s Maria Callas biopic Maria starring Angelina Jolie and new works from the likes of Alfonso Cuarón, Walter Salles, Harmony Korine, Thomas Vinterberg, Brady Corbet, Takeshi Kitano, Claude Lelouch, Errol Morris and others.

Below is a compilation of our reviews from the fest, which last year awarded its Golden Lion for best film to Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, who went on the win the Best Actress Oscar. Isabelle Huppert heads the competition jury this year.

This review may contain spoilers.

2024 has been a busy year for Kiyoshi Kurosawa. This festival season, the circuit has been circulating three (!) fresh releases of his.“Chime” premiered at Berlinale, “Cloud” at Venice, “Serpent’s Path” is slated for San Sebastian. Of these, “Cloud” has been well-regarded. It has just been selected as Japan’s entry for Best International Film for the 97th Academy Awards and as of Thursday, made its North American debut at Toronto International Film Festival.

Cloud is screening at Toronto International Film Festival

Audiences buzzing with excitement greeted the film on the first night of the fest, and “Cloud” answered well in kind. The feature follows Ryosuke Yoshii (played by the indelible Masaki Suda), who quits his job as a factory worker to get into the Internet reselling business. At first, everything seems to go swimmingly. He moves to a large house in the countryside with his lover,...

Nearly everyone's been scammed on the internet - it's a rite of passage at this point, to direct ire at some faceless person through a screen. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud asks who the person on the other side of that screen is and turns out it's just some guy named Yoshii living in a cramped apartment hoarding everything from knockoff designer handbags to anime figurines encased in glass.

Cloud

Director Kiyoshi KurosawaRelease Date September 27, 2024Writers Kiyoshi KurosawaCast Yoshiyuki Morishita, Toshihiro Yashiba, Yusei Mikawa, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Masaaki Akahori, Amane Okayama, Daiken Okudaira, Kotone Furukawa, Maho Yamada, Tetsuya Chiba, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Masaki Suda, Yutaka Matsushige, Masataka KubotaRuntime 123 MinutesGenres Thriller, Action, Horror

Yoshii doesn't consider himself a scammer. Rather, he's a reseller of desirable goods, mostly so he can make enough money to do as little as possible. He works part-time, but when his boss wants to promote him to manager, he refuses.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is having quite the year. Chime, a mid-length chiller, was a standout at the Berlinale. A French-language remake of his own Serpent’s Path will have its European premiere at San Sebastian. And now we have Cloud: a cold thriller with a dark, satirical edge that shows the master filmmaker at his leanest and meanest, taking a clean core idea (what if an online reseller was hunted down by the people he ripped off) and stretching it out until it’s misshapen and disfigured and, much like its protagonist, an unsettling version of its former self.

We might not be quite into late-period Kurosawa just yet, but after four decades behind the camera there are already signs of that same lack of fuss to his filmmaking. Just watch the opening sequence of Cloud, which delivers a full psychological profile of the film’s protagonist before even a title card appears.

Erratic, prolific Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa has, at his best, a peculiar genius for finding strangeness — often malevolence — gathering like dust in the shadowy corners of banal modern life. With “Cloud,” which has just been announced as Japan’s International Oscar submission, the filmmaker gives that impulse a compellingly enigmatic update, turning in an offbeat internet-age drama that devolves into a vengeance actioner so deconstructed it’s almost existentially abstract: Beckett giving it both barrels.

The hinge between the film’s two modes is Yoshii (a terrifically watchable Masaki Suda) who also operates in a double register. In real life a competent, if disengaged menial worker in a clothing factory, online, he goes by the handle “Ratel” and runs a shady reselling racket that is his real focus and his real moneymaker. As “Cloud” begins, Yoshii is inspecting a consignment of “therapy machines” up for quick sale by their desperate manufacturer.

The last time the journeyman Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa was at the Venice Film Festival, he took home the event’s prestigious best director award for his period drama Wife of a Spy. He is back in the Italian festival’s main competition this week with Cloud, the first action film of his expansive and acclaimed filmography. The film received a boost on Friday morning ahead of its world premiere on the Lido, as news arrived in Venice that Japan had selected Cloud as its official entry to the Oscars’ best international film race.

The film tells the story of Ryōsuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda in a star-making performance), a worker at a small factory who makes money on the side as an online reseller of random goods — medical devices, handbags, collectible figurines — anything he can flip for a quick profit. Gradually, Yoshii begins shunning those around him — an old friend...

Yoshii (Masaki Suda) sells stuff. Any stuff, as long as it’s piled high — in a digital sense — and selling cheap, but not nearly as cheap as what he paid for it. The first thing we see him buy is a pile of “miracle therapy machines” at a knockdown price casually extorted from the people who claim to make them. Who buys this garbage? Who cares? Yoshii is full of the bravado of a gambler on a winning streak. He has no idea whether he is buying fake designer goods, he tells another “reseller,” which is the name of his game. The point is to move things on before you find out.

Except that some people do find out they have been cheated. Among them, there are even people as web-smart as Yoshii himself. They will find out who he really is, behind his internet handle Ratel. And when they find out,...

Japan’s Nikkatsu has secured key sales of Cloud, the upcoming suspense thriller by acclaimed auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa, ahead of its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

The feature has been acquired for France (Art House Films), Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Italy (Minerva Pictures) and Taiwan (Sky Digi Entertainment).

Cloud will play out of competition at Venice, which runs from August 28-September 7 and revealed its line-up today (July 23).

It will mark a return to the Lido for Kurosawa, who won the Silver Lion for best director at Venice in 2020 with Wife Of A Spy.

The story, written by Kurosawa, centres...

The official website for the upcoming live-action film adaptation of Masamitsu Nigatsu's romantic comedy action manga Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards released a main trailer and a main visual today. The trailer features the film's theme song "Breakout" performed by the Japanese male idol group Snow Man . The group's 20-year-old member Raul is also cast as the film's protagonist, Arakuni Ibuki. "I am very happy that the group's song will be added to the film I am participating in," said Raul. "It is a great honor for me and for the group, so I thought carefully about the meaning of singing this song as a group. I was able to share the screenplay and the atmosphere of the work site with the members while working on it, so the team and I were satisfied with the finished song. I hope you enjoy the chemical reaction with the movie." Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards...

You know how it is: you wait 4 years for a new Kiyoshi Kurosawa film to follow “Wife of a Spy” and then three come along in quick succession int he same year. After his remake to his own “Serpent's Path” and a short film, we now gear up for the release of his new work, “Cloud”, starring Masaki Suda.

Synopsis

Ryosuke Yoshii is an ordinary person, who supports himself by reselling things on the internet. He carelessly earns grudges by people around him and, in the end, he is dragged into a desperate struggle that risks his life.

in addition to Suda, “Cloud” stars Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira, Amane Okayama, YosiYosi Arakawa and Masataka Kubota. It is scheduled to release in Japan on September 27th, 2024.

After a sluggish start to a wild premise, the streaming series Dragons of Wonderhatch (or Wonderhatch: Soratobu Ryu no Shima), completed the 8-episode run of its first season at a middling pace and left its conclusion open-ended. With C&i Entertainment on the live-action front and Production I.G taking care of the anime sections, Kentaro Hagiwara and Takashi Otsuka share directorial duties for their respective departments. The Ona (Original Net Animation) from Disney+ also features both acting chops and voice acting of Daiken Okudaira as Thaim, Mackenyu as Aktha, Morita Go as Supes, and Sumire as Saira as series lead Sena Nakajima appears only in live-action as Nagi with Yoshito Emmanuelle as Mame beside her, and Tsuda Kenjiro guest-starring as Jairo.

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Romance series Insomniacs After School , which features several locations from Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan, combined scenes from the original manga, anime and live-action adaptations in a special video released today subtitled "You Are Not Alone", paying tribute to areas such as Noto Peninsula that were recently devastated by an earthquake and tsunami. The video was put together to support the current reconstruction efforts. Related: Nana Mori & Daiken Okudaira Play The Leads in Insomniacs After School Live-Action Film Based on the manga by Makoto Ojiro, the Insomniacs After School anime was directed by Yuki Ikeda at studio Liden Films, with series composition by Rintaro Ikeda, character designs by Hiroaki Fukuda and music by Yuki Hayashi. The series aired 13 episodes from April to July, 2023. Viz Media, which publishes the manga's official English version, describes the story: Dark rumors about what befell the members of the astronomy club keep people away from the school observatory,...

Dragons of Wonderhatch is now available on Hulu and Disney+.

Dragons of Wonderhatch is Disney's first project to combine live-action with Japanese animation. Since the series features mythical creatures that travel back and forth from the fantasy world to our "real world," the show also utilizes a combination of 2D and 3D animation. As detailed on Anime News Network, Production I.G. developed the series' animated segments, while C&i Entertainment (live-action Rurouni Kenshin) oversaw production on the live-action portions.

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Dragons of Wonderhatch revolves around a Nagi, a fantasy-loving high school girl that longs to live in a more exciting world. In an alternate realm called Upanata, people live alongside dragons, taming and training them as Dragon Riders. One day, a boy named...

“Dragons of Wonderhatch” is a new live-action/animation hybrid TV series, directed by Kentaro Hagiwara and Takashi Otsuka, starring Sena Nakajima, Daiken Okudaira, Rena Tanaka, Masaki Miura, Riko Narumi, Sumire, Go Morita and Mackenyu, streaming December 20, 2023 on Hulu and Disney+:

‘…born with the ability of ‘sound-color synesthesia’, that allows her to see colors when she hears certain sounds, ‘Nagi’ has spent her entire life feeling like she doesn’t belong.

“Dreaming of one day being able to fly, Nagi will soon come face to face with ‘Thaim’, another ‘misfit’ from a different world. Born in ‘Upananta’, Thaim has long been treated like an outcast for his inability to hear the voices of the dragons that inhabit his land. With the floating islands of Upananta slowly beginning to fall from the sky, the two will set off on an epic adventure spanning both live-action and animated worlds…”

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Fans can now get a better look at Disney's Dragons of Wonderhatch, which is set to premiere later on this year.

Disney+ released a new teaser trailer of its live-action/anime hybrid Dragons of Wonderhatch on Oct. 23 via YouTube. The description of the TV series reads: "The real world we live in, depicted in live-action, and a fantasy world with dragons, depicted in anime, brought by Disney+! This completely new story that no one has seen before depicts two worlds, Yokosuka in live-action and the dragon fantasy world Upananta in anime." The teaser showcases two of the main leads -- the Japanese schoolgirl Nagi and the dragon rider from another world, Tyme.

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The latest teaser confirms new additions to the cast from the earlier trailer released this year, which include Rena Tanaka, Masami Miura, Riko Narumi and Sumire. Tanaka joins as Nagi's mother, Hana, while Miura joins as Nagi's father.

As we have mentioned many times before, the manga/anime adaptation is one of the nucleus of Japanese cinema, with a plethora of titles finding their way to the big screen.”Insomniacs After School”, based on the slice-of-life homonymous manga series written and illustrated by Makoto Ojiro, also follows the same path.

Insomniacs After School is screening at Fantasia International Film Festival

The story takes place In the small city of Nanao in Ishikawa Prefecture, where Ganta Nakami, a highschool student, is suffering from chronic insomnia, that has led him to a number of issues in his life, particularly a constant crankiness and a series of dozing-offs that frequently lead to injuries, usually treated by the school nurse, Ms Kurashiki. One day, the class rep asks him to fetch a step-ladder from the supposedly abandoned observatory, where he stumbles upon Isaki Magari, a cheerful student suffering from the same nocturnal condition as himself.

Suffering from chronic insomnia that makes him irritable and distant, Ganta Nakami struggles to fit in at Kuyo High School. Assigned by his classmates to fetch a stepladder from the supposedly haunted observatory, he meets Isaki Magari, a cheerful student suffering from the same nocturnal condition as himself. Having herself spread the rumor about the near-abandoned place, Isaki invites Ganta to share her haven. However, an overly well-intentioned teacher discovers the ruse and urges them to resurrect the astronomy club if they want to keep their little paradise. On the advice of the club's former leader, the duo organizes a stargazing event, which unfortunately falls through despite the unexpected help of several other students. Devastated, Ganta believes he is the instigator of everything that goes wrong around him, but Isaki puts things into perspective by confessing a secret that haunts her day and night. A congenital illness has left her with half a heart,...

Disney+ has announced a slate of Asia originals for the second half of 2023, including Korean dramas Moving and The Worst Of Evil and the latest project in its collaboration with Hybe, BTS Monuments: Beyond The Star.

The packed slate of originals also includes Japanese anime Tokyo Revengers: Teknik Arc, part of Disney’s collaboration with publishing house Kodansha, and hybrid live-action and anime series Dragons Of Wonderhatch.

Set to premiere on August 9, Korean drama Moving is based on Kangfull’s webtoon about a group of superpowered individuals on the run from government forces and a mysterious assassin. Ryu Seungryong, Han Hyojoo and Zo Insung head the cast.

Ji Changwook, Squid Game actor Wi Hajun and Lim Semi star in crime drama The Worst Of Evil, set in 1990s Seoul, where a rural police officer is recruited to help bring down a trafficking gang pushing a potent new drug.

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The Village is a Japanese film starring Ryusei Yokohama, Haru Kuroki, and Arata Furuta and directed by Michihito Fujii. The movie takes us on a journey between fantasy and reality in a Japanese village that has become a dumpsite. This film blends ancient tradition with the harsh reality of modern times, making it very relevant.

About the Movie

The film constantly seeks the truth, which is commendable. It is a different kind of movie on Netflix, as it is full of realism and delves into a pressing issue of contemporary society: waste management and the social problems it brings. It is a good starting point, and after an excellent opening sequence about Kabuki theater, the film continues to maintain our interest by presenting a well-told story that finds its own rhythm. With a lot of personality and a strong message, the film develops and reaches a level of maturity.

This movie will have its audience,...

The program announcements continue for this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, with the Series and Generation strands both unveiling today, as well as the line-up for the Co-Production Market. Scroll down for the lists of titles.

The Berlinale Series selection, which is increasingly becoming a more high-profile part of the festival, again boasts several buzzy titles.

Premiering in Berlin will be Amazon Prime Video’s Argentinian series Yosi, The Regretful Spy, the Swedish show Lust from HBO Max, Sky’s UK series The Rising, and Lone Scherfig Danish show The Shift, which comes from local broadcaster TV2.

The Generation strand, which features youth-focused cinema, includes 14 features this year. The selection marks the last of long-time Generation head Maryanne Redpath.

Elsewhere, the European Film Market has confirmed titles for its Co-Production Market, which like the rest of the industry activity will take place virtually this year.

The Berlinale runs February 10-20 this year,...

The plethora of indie family dramas in the Japanese industry have a number of motifs in common. The accusation of the current generation towards the previous ones, the overall lack of parenting, that not all women are fit to become mothers and bullying are the most central ones. Tatsushi Omori, in his latest work, which is now streaming on Netflix, seems to have managed to include every one of them, in a film whose pragmatism is quite shocking even more so since it is based on an actual incident that took place in 2014.

The film shows its colors from the initial scene, where we see Akiko, a single mother, trying to get money from her parents and her hard-working sister, first by yelling and becoming violent and then by begging. However, they will not have none of it, since their patience is obviously exhausted, and a frustrated Akiko leaves along with her little son,...