In a Thicket

(1996)

★ 5.8 IMDb · 5 votes

Genres: Mystery, Horror, Fantasy

Year: 1996

Runtime: 88 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 佐藤寿保

Cast: 松岡俊介, 坂上香織, 細川茂樹, 白石ひとみ, ジーコ内山, 高杉亘

Plot

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.