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Hebi no michi - Serpent's Path is one of two movies on the same subject – REVENGE – that Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa shot back to back; the other is Eyes of the Spider.

An explicitly violent story of revenge that has a man trying to track down the killers of his pre-teen daughter. Miyashita a former low level yakuza has tracked down his child's killer with help of his friend Nijima whom he met a year before. They've kidnapped a yakuza member believed responsible for the killing to take out revenge.

But vengeance is neither simple or easy, and another person is soon implicated in the child's death leading the pair farther down the path of revenge and violence. But what darker secret has led Nijima, a lowly professor to help Miyashita in this affair? The real story here is the professor's agenda, whose motives provide the movie with its chilling finale.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Stars: Sho Aikawa, Teruyuki Kagawa and Shiro Shitamoto

1998 - JAPANESE with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES - COLOR - 16:9 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN - 85 MINUTES



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