Kiyoshi Kurosawa revisits and reimagines his own 1998 thriller in this haunting French-language adaptation. The Japanese revenge story is now transformed into a chilling meditation on grief, guilt, and moral decay. 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. A bereaved father 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. “Serpent’s Path [is] a brisk, harsh and, yes, clinically professional update of his own 1998 thriller.” – Guy Lodge, Variety