Serpent’s Path and its companion piece Eyes of the Spider (Kumo No Hitomi) both start from the same premise: a man taking revenge for the murder of a child. Kurosawa used this premise as the jumping-off point for the two films rather than their definition, resulting in a pair of works which are not so much occupied with revenge, but with the mental processes of human beings in situations that have placed them outside everyday life.
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Sorekara / And Then… (1985) Yoshimitsu Morita
This is a probing tale set in turn of the century Japan, involving three people trapped in a complex relationship of love and friendship. Read More »