Special Screenings

Serpent’s Path
and Chime

Saturday, April 11, 2026 | 7:30pm

Little Theatre 1 (240 East Ave.)
Doors open at 7:00pm

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 | 7:30pm

Little Theatre 1 (240 East Ave.)
Doors open at 7:00pm

Standard ticket prices
Tickets available online in advance, at our box office during open hours, or at the door (if tickets remain).

Two masterworks from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, being released theatrically for the first time in the US.

Serpent’s Path (1998), Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s follow-up to his international breakthrough Cure (1997), is a dark gangland thriller with philosophical overtones. | A masterclass in escalating dread and shocking violence, Chime (2024) reaffirms Kiyoshi Kurosawa as one of modern horror’s most innovative and unpredictable visionaries.

Both films screen back-to-back, as part of a single program.
Total running time: 2 hrs 10 min

“A provocative examination of human psychology…as challenging and rewarding, not to mention gripping, as anything [Kurosawa] has made.” –Midnight Eye

Serpent’s Path

Obsessed with avenging his young daughter’s murder, yakuza subordinate Miyashita (Teruyuki Kagawa) recruits Nijima (Sho Aikawa), a brilliant yet strangely detached math teacher, to help carry out a scheme to kidnap and torture the man allegedly responsible. But the plan goes awry when their target, Otsuki (Yurei Yanagi), fingers another mobster as the mastermind behind Miyashita’s tragedy.

Featuring Kurosawa’s patented long takes and his claustrophobic arrangement of space, Serpent’s Path is one of the legendary director’s most chilling investigations into the endless cycle of violence and the evil that lodges in every heart. Kurosawa would go on to remake the story in 2024, but the original remains as shocking and timeless as ever.

Chime

During a class, culinary instructor Matsuoka (Mutsuo Yoshioka) witnesses the suicide of a young student (Seiichi Kohinata), driven to insanity by what he claims is a chiming sound that controls his mind. Soon, Matsuoka begins hearing it, too, and descends into a mental abyss that warps his perception of reality and gives vent to his darkest impulses.

Expertly blending psychological portraiture and hallucinatory mystery, Kurosawa offers a chilling depiction of madness that interrogates the very stability of our everyday existence, with the director’s patented creeping tracking shots and complex sound design fashioning an immersively terrifying and unnerving cinematic experience.

Chime will only be available in theaters and will never be released on streaming platforms.