A 4K restoration of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 1998 crime thriller Serpent’s Path is heading to theaters this spring, but it’s the rare horror title being paired with this feature that has us excited. Opening March 27, 2026, at the IFC Center, Serpent’s Path will begin showing with Chime, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 45-minute exercise in existential horror. In […]
As for Serpent’s Path, “Obsessed with avenging his young daughter’s murder, yakuza subordinate Miyashita (Teruyuki Kagawa) recruits Nijima (Sho Aikawa), a brilliant yet strangely detached math teacher, to help carry out a scheme to kidnap and torture the man allegedly responsible. But the plan goes awry when their target, Otsuki (Yurei Yanagi), fingers another mobster as the mastermind behind Miyashita’s tragedy. As the two partners ascend the yakuza chain of command in search of the true culprit, Miyashita and Nijima follow the cold, calculating logic of revenge, descending into a moral abyss from which they may never surface.”
Keep an eye out for Chime’s stateside theatrical release this spring and stay tuned for more on the film that Film Comment has stated “could be a spiritual sequel” to Cure.
