In a Thicket (1996)

In a Thicket (1996)
Released: 18 May 1996
Runtime: 87 Mins
Genre: Fantasy Horror Mystery Countries: Japan Languages: Japanese
Directed By: Hisayasu Satô
Actors: Shunsuke Matsuoka Kaori Sakagami Shigeki Hosokawa Hitomi Shiraishi Zeeko Uchiyama Koh Takasugi
Subtitles
Internal: English

Alternate Titles: 藪の中 yabu no naka

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.

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