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Serpent's Path

1998 · 85 min

A cold, methodical descent into vengeance that is quietly disturbing and emotionally draining.

Directed by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Genres
Crime, Thriller
Starring
Show Aikawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûrei Yanagi
Tagline
Violence escalates as a man seeks revenge for the murder of his daughter.
Overview
With the help of a mysterious acquaintance, a former low-level yakuza tracks down and kidnaps the man he believes kidnapped and murdered his daughter, but others are soon implicated in the death.

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Directed by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Genres
Crime, Thriller
Starring
Show Aikawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûrei Yanagi
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • revenge
  • grief
  • obsession
  • violence
  • morality
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror4
Humour1
Realism8
Romance0
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
crime, thriller
Directed by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Written by
Hiroshi Takahashi
Starring
Show Aikawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûrei Yanagi, Shirō Shimomoto, Kaei Okina, Kaoru Sunada, Takumi Tanji, Hana Sato
Music
Hikaru Yoshida
Cinematography
Masaki Tamura
Runtime
85 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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