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In a Thicket
19965.51h 28m
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.
Directed by Hisayasu Satō
Written by Takashi Natori, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
0Top Cast
Shunsuke Matsuoka
Kaori Sakagami
Masago
Shigeki Hosokawa
Hitomi Shiraishi
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Zeeko Uchiyama
Koh Takasugi
About In a Thicket
In a Thicket is a mystery, horror, fantasy film released in 1996. Directed by Hisayasu Satō, it stars Shunsuke Matsuoka, Kaori Sakagami, Shigeki Hosokawa. 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.
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