
In a Thicket
May 18 1996
•1h 28m
•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.
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Shunsuke Matsuoka

Kaori Sakagami
Masago

Shigeki Hosokawa

Hitomi Shiraishi
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