Serpent's Path (1998) + Mystery Film (DOUBLE FEATURE)

CINEMA EAST SERIES CO-PRESENTED BY WWU LIBRARIES SERPENT'S PATH: Straight off Cure (1997), his international breakthrough, Kiyoshi Kurosawa directed two low-budget films using the same basic premise and the same lead actor (Sho Aikawa) to completely different ends. The experiment first resulted in Serpent’s Path (1998, later remade in 2024), a dark gangland thriller with philosophical overtones. Obsessed with avenging his young daughter’s murder, yakuza subordinate Miyashita (Teruyuki Kagawa) recruits Nijima (Aikawa), a brilliant yet strangely detached math teacher, to help carry outcarry out a scheme to kidnap and torture the man allegedly responsible. But the plan goes awry when their target, Otsuki (Yurei Yanagi), fingers another mobster as the mastermind behind Miyashita’s tragedy. As the two partners ascend the yakuza chain of command in search of the true culprit, Miyashita and Nijima follow the cold, calculating logic of revenge, descending into a moral abyss from which they may never surface. Featuring Kurosawa’s patented long takes and his claustrophobic arrangement of space, Serpent’s Path is one of the legendary director’s most chilling investigations into the endless cycle of violence and the evil that lodges in every heart. MYSTERY FILM: Stay tuned! The film playing as a double feature will be revealed soon!Crime, ThrillerPT2H10M2026-03-05
Show Aikawa
Teruyuki Kagawa
Yûrei Yanagi
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
Atsuyuki Shimoda
Serpent's Path (1998) + Mystery Film (DOUBLE FEATURE)"Serpent's Path (1998) + Mystery Film (DOUBLE FEATURE)"

Showtimes

March 5, 11:00 am

March 5, 7:45 pm

Pickford Film Center