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In a Thicket (1996) · 藪の中

Name: In a Thicket
Director: Hisayasu Satō
Genre: Fantástico, Misterio
Released: 1996
Duration: 88 min
Cast: Shunsuke Matsuoka, Kaori Sakagami, Shigeki Hosokawa, Hitomi Shiraishi, Zeeko Uchiyama

Original title: 藪の中

1996 · Hisayasu Satō · 88 min · Japan · Edited by 1

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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.

A 1996 title built around Fantástico and Misterio. Directed by Hisayasu Satō.

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In a Thicket (1996) · 藪の中

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