Kiyoshi Kurosawa revisits and reimagines his own 1998 thriller in this haunting French-language adaptation of Serpent’s Path, transforming a revenge story into a chilling meditation on grief, guilt, and moral decay. Relocating the action from Tokyo to the bleak outskirts of Paris, the film follows a bereaved father (Damien Bonnard) who embarks on a labyrinthine quest for vengeance against a shadowy child-trafficking organization known as “The Circle,” aided by the enigmatic and unnervingly composed Sayoko, played with hypnotic ambiguity by Ko Shibasaki. Expanding upon the original’s psychological terrain while retaining its eerie inevitability, Kurosawa crafts a masterclass in atmosphere and existential dread, proving once again why he remains one of cinema’s great architects of unease.

“Challenging, rewarding, and gripping.” — Midnight Eye

“Disturbing, elegant.” — Gazettely

"Ko Shibasaki shreds this entire movie, such a fine-tuned performance of expertly calibrated menace and simmering, ambiguous rage.” — Mitchell Beaupre, Letterboxd