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Serpent's Path

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Devastated by his eight-year-old daughter's inexplicable disappearance, Albert conducts his own investigation when police fail to solve the case, receiving help from psychiatrist Sayoko.

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William Repass Slant Magazine Sep 7, 2026
2/4
Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Serpent’s Path, a remake of the director’s own film from 1998, suffers from being at once too similar to the original and too distinct in a number of crucial respects. Go to Full Review David Jenkins Little White Lies Jan 24, 2025
It’s a singularly dismal affair, one that sits in a necessarily uncomfortable place between genre thriller and arthouse doodle. But this is another intriguing exercise in cultivating a tone of extreme unease and just sustaining it until the credits roll. Go to Full Review Jonathan Romney Screen International Oct 4, 2024
A more deliberately-crafted prestige affair starring major names of Japanese and French cinema. Yet it goes through its grim tragi-farce moves rather mechanically, pulling the viewer’s strings in a way that is hardly unpredictable. Go to Full Review Max G. Robinson MovieJawn Sep 11, 2026
Serpent’s Path is a worthwhile second bite at the apple when it comes to Kurosawa’s career-spanning pet obsessions with creeping psychological manipulation and ordinary people’s terrifying capacity for brutal violence. Go to Full Review Brett Arnold At the Movies Again Sep 11, 2026
A uniquely bleak take on the revenge movie genre that feels thoroughly modern and also manages to be quite funny in a very dark way Go to Full Review Mark Dujsik Mark Reviews Movies Sep 11, 2026
3.5/4
[The] remake ... finds a way to simultaneously make the plot cleaner and focus more on the ideas at the cold heart of this brutal tale. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Director

Ko Shibasaki

Sayoko

Mathieu Amalric

Laval

Damien Bonnard

Albert

Grégoire Colin

Pierre Guérin

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Yoshimura

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Movie Info

Synopsis Devastated by his eight-year-old daughter's inexplicable disappearance, Albert conducts his own investigation when police fail to solve the case, receiving help from psychiatrist Sayoko.
Director
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Screenwriter
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Production Co
Tarantula, Cinéfrance Studios, Kadokawa
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 11, 2026, Limited
Runtime
1h 53m
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