★★★★☆ Third Window Films continue their fine tradition of bringing little-seen gems from Japan to the UK with a double-bill of early films from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose Tokyo Sonata and Cure have received widespread critical acclaim. Kurosawa has garnered a reputation for defying - if not completely subverting - generic conventions, whilst creating complex narratives which have marked him out as a unique voice in contemporary Japanese cinema. Serpent's Path and Eyes of the Spider both offer an interesting insight into the formative development of Kurosawa's style, with the precedents of his approach on clear display.
Serpent's Path in particular takes a conventional and rigid revenge narrative and twists and contorts the formula, making the story more like a fluid and writhing angry snake - unexpected and extremely dangerous. The film stars Sho Aikawa, now a regular face in the films of luminaries such as Rokuro Mochizuki and Takashi Miike, as Nijima,...
Serpent's Path in particular takes a conventional and rigid revenge narrative and twists and contorts the formula, making the story more like a fluid and writhing angry snake - unexpected and extremely dangerous. The film stars Sho Aikawa, now a regular face in the films of luminaries such as Rokuro Mochizuki and Takashi Miike, as Nijima,...
- 9/9/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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