Kiyoshi KUROSAWA 黒沢清
SERPENT’S PATH (2024)
蛇の道
Nippon Cinema ª
With his eight-year-old daughter dead and the perpetrator still at large, desperate father Albert kidnaps the suspect, determined to coerce a confession. But he soon begins to question the man’s guilt. SERPENT’S PATH by Kiyoshi KUROSAWA (NIPPON HONOR AWARD 2016) is a nerve-wracking and sharp-witted remake of his 1998 thriller of the same name.
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蛇の道
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France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Japan 2024
113 minutes
Director
Kiyoshi KUROSAWA
Script
Kiyoshi KUROSAWA, Aurélien FERENCZI
Cinematography
Alexis Kavyrchine
Music
Nicolas ERRÈRA
World sales
KADOKAWA
Cast
Ko SHIBASAKI, Damien BONNARD, Mathieu Amalric, Grégoire COLIN, Hidetoshi NISHIJIMA
About Kiyoshi KUROSAWA
黒沢清
Kiyoshi KUROSAWA, born in Kobe in 1955, began his career as an assistant director for veterans such as Shinji SOMAI. His international breakthrough came with CURE (1997 / NC ‘16). He won the Prix Un Certain Regard twice at the Cannes Film Festival: in 2008 for TOKYO SONATA (NC ‘16) and in 2015 for JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (NC ‘16). He also taught for 20 years at Tokyo University of the Arts in Yokohama. He received the NIPPON HONOR AWARD at the Nippon Connection Film Festival 2016.