Who knew that in 1998, we got a Japanese precursor to Park Chan-wook's Vengeance-trilogy, only this time it's a duo.
Both directed in the same year by everyone's (you horror connoisseur's out there) favorite Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and both dealing with the ever returning, never-dying theme of revenge. I mentioned Chan-wook because Serpent's Path especially feels like a huge inspiration for his Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005), only here we got a much higher body count. Serpent and Spider very much goes hand in hand, sharing some of the same actors and how they deal with the possibility of being able to exact pain on those who've ruined your life, and in some instances it gets way darker than Chan-wook's films.
The two stories are also like different branches on the same tree, where in Spider a man discovers a darker side of himself after exacting revenge on his daughter's killer, and in Serpent a man enlists a friend to help him identify and exact revenge upon his daughter's murderer. Kurosawa manages to juggle the films plot elements not to close to each other and finds their own personalities with ease, the only thing the viewer know is that someone is going to pay for a heinous crime.
Genre: Drama/Crime
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