CINEFILER

In a Thicket

1996
88 minutes
Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
★★★★★
★★★★★
3.25
Directed By: Hisayasu Satô
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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.

Language
Japanese
Release Date
May 18, 1996
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