In a Thicket

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 18, 1996

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Image Factory IM Co. Ltd.

Cast

Shunsuke Matsuoka,Shigeki Hosokawa,Koh Takasugi,Kaori Sakagami,Hitomi Shiraishi,Zeeko Uchiyama

Director

Hisayasu Satô

Writer

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa,Takashi Natori

Cinematography

Akiko Ashizawa

Music

Koji Endo

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0229860