In a Thicket (1996)

  • NR
  • 05/18/1996 (JP)
  • Mystery, Horror, Fantasy
  • 1h 28m

Overview

Sato's re-imagining of In a Grove, on which Rashomon was based. In this version, instead of a web of lies and agendas, we get a web of desires, perversions like incest, and occult phenomenon like an oracle-demon, hallucinations, and human sacrifice. Once again, the story starts with a detective trying to unravel the story of a man and a woman encountering a bandit-rapist in the woods, but the real story keeps turning out to be unfathomable as layer upon layer of strange motives and events keep turning up.

Hisayasu Satô

Director

Takashi Natori

Screenplay

Cast

Shunsuke Matsuoka's headshot

Shunsuke Matsuoka

Kaori Sakagami's headshot

Kaori Sakagami

Masago
Shigeki Hosokawa's headshot

Shigeki Hosokawa

Hitomi Shiraishi's headshot

Hitomi Shiraishi

Zeeko Uchiyama's headshot

Zeeko Uchiyama

Koh Takasugi's headshot

Koh Takasugi

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