UW Cinematheque - New Restorations and Special Presentations
Serpent's Path | Japan | 1998 | DCP | 85 min. | Japanese with English subtitles Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Event Details
Date
Saturday, September 5, 2026
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Sho Aikawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yurei Yanagi
Immediately following his hypnotic 1997 horror film Cure, legendary Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa continued to explore the nature of violence with Serpent’s Path. Miyashita (Kagawa) believes he has found the man responsible for his daughter’s horrific death. Yet as he kidnaps and tortures the purported culprit in a dilapidated warehouse alongside his accomplice Nijima (Aikawa), Miyashita’s quest for vengeance steadily begets more carnage.
Immediately following his hypnotic 1997 horror film Cure, legendary Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa continued to explore the nature of violence with Serpent’s Path. Miyashita (Kagawa) believes he has found the man responsible for his daughter’s horrific death. Yet as he kidnaps and tortures the purported culprit in a dilapidated warehouse alongside his accomplice Nijima (Aikawa), Miyashita’s quest for vengeance steadily begets more carnage.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email jehealy@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Saturday, August 22, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.