Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s follow-up to his international breakthrough Cure (1997), SERPENT’S PATH is a dark gangland thriller with philosophical overtones. Featuring Kurosawa’s patented long takes and his claustrophobic arrangement of space, it is one of the legendary director’s most chilling investigations into the endless cycle of violence and the evil that lodges in every heart.
Plays with Kurosawa's 2024 featurette Chime.
Showtime is 6 pm, we'll meet around 5.45 at the Roxie box office to grab our seats.
Overall runtime of the program is 2 hours 20 minutes.
Tickets: https://roxie.com/film/kiyoshi-kurosawas-serpents-path-and-chime/
Chime
A culinary teacher becomes consumed with a sense of dread when strange things begin happening to his students.
Serpent's Path
Obsessed with avenging his young daughter’s murder, yakuza subordinate Miyashita (Teruyuki Kagawa) recruits Nijima (Sho Aikawa), a brilliant yet strangely detached math teacher, to help carry 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.
