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In a Thicket (1996)

Genre : Mystery, Horror, Fantasy

Runtime : 1H 28M

Director : Hisayasu Satô
Writer : Takashi Natori

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Shunsuke Matsuoka
Shunsuke Matsuoka
Kaori Sakagami
Kaori Sakagami
Masago
Shigeki Hosokawa
Shigeki Hosokawa
Hitomi Shiraishi
Hitomi Shiraishi
Ziko Uchiyama
Ziko Uchiyama
Koh Takasugi
Koh Takasugi

Crews

Hisayasu Satô
Hisayasu Satô
Director
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Original Story
Akiko Ashizawa
Akiko Ashizawa
Director of Photography
Takashi Natori
Takashi Natori
Screenplay
Akio Tashiro
Akio Tashiro
Art Direction
Nobutake Kamiya
Nobutake Kamiya
Editor
Koji Endo
Koji Endo
Original Music Composer