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Serpent's Path

Serpent's Path is a 1998 Japanese crime thriller film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and written by Hiroshi Takahashi. It follows the story of two men who engage in kidnapping and torture in order to discover the identity of a child murderer.

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Arriving at an abandoned warehouse on the edge of town, two men drag a man from the boot of their car and chain him to a wall in the warehouse. A former low-level yakuza member named Miyashita has enlisted his friend Nijima (a schoolteacher) to track down the person who kidnapped and murdered his daughter. Miyashita watches home video footage of his daughter obsessively as the two of them torture the man they have captive. Upon finding out that he is not the killer, he confesses that more people were involved in the plot, leading the two of them deeper down the path of revenge.

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