No one makes movies quite like Kiyoshi Kurosawa does. His style uses space, time and movement to provide not only genre chills but also to serve as a vessel for his deeper commentary on Japanese society. Shortly after the North American premiere of his film Cloud at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the legendary director (no relation to the other legendary Japanese filmmaker named Kurosawa) gave us a glimpse into his creative process — how he conducts movement and what his role as director means to him.

Cloud

NR, 123 minutes; in Japanese with English subtitles

Playing Aug. 29-Sept. 4 at the Belcourt

“When I decide the position of actors and the camera, everyone has the same script working with the same story, but they are acting completely different each time,” Ku

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