In a Thicket

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.

Directed by Hisayasu Satô

Writers Takashi Natori Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Stars Shunsuke Matsuoka Kaori Sakagami Shigeki Hosokawa

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