Serpents Path is a movie that just makes me more furious that Kurosawa is going back to the Japanese Horror sub-genre for his most recent film (Loft). The reason being: this movie is incredible. I consider myself a pretty big fan of Kurosawa movies, at least considering I am an American (non-Asian), and I love all of his films. However, I want to see something different from him. There is no doubt that Loft is going to be good, but we have already seen what he can do with the traditional Japanese Horror from the movies Seance, Cure, and Pulse. He tends to work in genres so I would have liked to see something else. Anyways about Serpents path. Serpents Path is a great revenge film. It has beautiful Kurosawa photography (composition). It also exemplifies several of Kurosawa's trademarks: very wide shots, distant action, blunt head trauma (lol, some of the best here, competes nicely with Doppelganger), dark humor, realistic sound, realistic camera movement and lighting. My only qualm with the film was the young girl (student)character. She seemed very obscure and out of place. I realize what she did for the story, and for the film, but I think it could have been done better another way. Other than that the film is wonderful. Much better than its "sister-movie" Eyes of The Spider. This film needs to have a wide release in the US. If you want the DVD it looks like you can only get it from EBAY.
Where this ranks with other KK movies:
1) Cure 2) Doppelganger 3) SERPENT'S PATH 4) Seance 5) Bright Future 6) Charisma 7) Eyes Of The Spider
Haven't seen Pulse... can't find a Region 1 DVD.
Joey Halegua
Where this ranks with other KK movies:
1) Cure 2) Doppelganger 3) SERPENT'S PATH 4) Seance 5) Bright Future 6) Charisma 7) Eyes Of The Spider
Haven't seen Pulse... can't find a Region 1 DVD.
Joey Halegua