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Hebi no michi

Hebi no michi

1998Movie⏱️ 1h 25m
CrimeDramaThriller
7
IMDB Rating
1,267 votes

A man enlists a friend to help him identify and exact revenge upon his daughter's murderer.

Director
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writers
N/A
Stars
Shô Aikawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûrei Yanagi
Release Date
February 21, 1998
Language
Japanese
Country
Japan
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Wins
💬 10
Reviews
📋 3.4K
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🎭 Top Cast

Shô Aikawa
Shô Aikawa
as Naomi Nîjima
Teruyuki Kagawa
Teruyuki Kagawa
as Tatsuo Miyashita
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Yûrei Yanagi
as Ôtsuki
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Shirô Shimomoto
as Hiyama
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Kaei Okina
as Ariga
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Kaoru Sunada
as Ôtsuki's Mistress
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Takumi Tanji
as Boy, Girl's Younger Brother
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Kana Satô
as Girl, Math Class Student
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Satoshi Morihiro
as Okabayashi, Math Class Student
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Ayami Oda
as Emi, Miyashita's Daughter

🎬 Technical Specs

Color
Color
Production
Daiei Studios, Twins Japan

🏷️ Keywords

revengedaughteryakuzafriendman

🎯 Categories

JapaneseCrimeDramaThriller

⭐ Featured Review

the path of revenge
by christopher-underwood2025-02-19
7/10

"A rather nasty, sad story of this made by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and written by Hiroshi Takahashi about an awful tale of people torturing and killing young girls and then selling their videos. Clearly the yakuza are involved but who exactly is doing it? This guy, who's daughter was killed, and worse, gets his mathematics teacher to help him and find the man who did it. It gets rather complicated not only about the maths but about the others who have to find them and some more will have to die. It is rather good and unusual but unfortunately, of course, the path of revenge and violence goes on a..."

💡 Did You Know?

Having been offered a small budget to make two films, director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and writer Hiroshi Takahashi each hastily wrote scripts. Both were versions of the same basic premise: a father seeks vengeance. Hiroshi Takahashi wrote Serpent's Path (1998) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa wrote Eyes of the Spider (1998) with the collaboration of Yôichi Nishiyama , and Kiyoshi Kurosawa ended up directing both films.

📖 Synopsis

A man enlists a friend to help him identify and exact revenge upon his daughter's murderer.