In a Thicket

1996· 88 min★ 5.9· Mystery, Horror, Fantasy

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.

Cast: Shunsuke Matsuoka, Kaori Sakagami, Shigeki Hosokawa

Director: Hisayasu Satō