If you loved Serpent's Path, try The Guard from Underground
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Both films are directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and they both carry the dread mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Serpent's Path, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What The Guard from Underground is
October midnight, fluorescent buzz. A broken locker door hangs open like a mouth. A night watchman in a stained yukata finds the receptionist’s head in the shredder then switches sides, blade in hand. Kurosawa’s night-shift nightmare where paranoia outranks paychecks.
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