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Miyashita's daughter was kidnapped and killed, and the loss stays with him. He was a low-level yakuza, and he asks his friend Nijima, a schoolteacher, to help him track down the man he believes is responsible. The pair find that man, pull him from the boot of a car and hold him chained to a wall inside an abandoned warehouse. Their aim is to get the identity of the child murderer out of him, and the questioning becomes torture. Miyashita replays home video of his daughter over and over, and the tape plays while the man is pressed for answers.
Cast
- Kaoru Sunadaas Ostuki's Mistress
- Takumi Tanjias Girl's Younger Brother
- Satoshi Morihiroas Okabayashi
- Ayami Odaas Emi
- Mizuho Tanakaas Nijima's Daughter
- Kazutaka Niyamaas Hiyama's Underling
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Serpent's Path (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa was offered the chance to make two films in two weeks on a very low budget. The second was Eyes of the Spider, a lighter take on the genre, and both it and Serpent's Path star Show Aikawa as a character named Nijima.
- Between 1996 and 1998, around the time he made Serpent's Path, Kiyoshi Kurosawa produced eleven films, only two of which, Cure and License to Live, were released theatrically.
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