Film

In a Thicket

1996 · 1h 28m · Mystery · Horror · Fantasy

IMDb

6.1

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.

Shunsuke Matsuoka

Kaori Sakagami

Masago

Shigeki Hosokawa

Hitomi Shiraishi

Zeeko Uchiyama

Koh Takasugi

• Hisayasu SatōDirector
• Takashi NatoriScreenplay
• Akiko AshizawaDirector of Photography
• Koji EndoOriginal Music Composer
• Nobutake KamiyaEditor

Release date

May 18, 1996

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Mystery, Horror, Fantasy