AKA: 藪の中, Yabu no naka, In the Thicket, В роще, 草间幻秘, 草間幻秘 | Directed by Hisayasu Satō | Country: Japan | Language: Japanese | 88 Mins
Cast: Shunsuke Matsuoka, Kaori Sakagami, Shigeki Hosokawa, Hitomi Shiraishi, Zeeko Uchiyama, Koh Takasugi
Subtitles : English, Japanese
Synopsis (Google Translate)
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.
[RG] In a Thicket (1996)
