In a Thicket (1996)

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.

• Release Date: 1996-05-18
• Runtime: 1h 28min
• Production Company: Image Factory IM Co. Ltd.
• Production Country: Japan
• Director: Hisayasu Satō
• Writer: Takashi Natori