Yabu no naka

May 18 1996 N/A 1h 28m
Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

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.

Plot

Takehiro and his beautiful wife Masago are attacked by a thief, Tajomaru. He rapes Masago in front of Takehiro, then kills him. He is arrested, sentenced and beheaded by the police. People tell themselves that Masago went to the lake and drowned herself. But Judge Morikawa, her brother, has his doubts and goes into the bamboo grove to find out the truth on the spot.

Written by

Ryûnosuke Akutagawa, Takashi Natori

Directed by

Hisayasu Satô

Cast

Kaori Sakagami, Shigeki Hosokawa, Shunsuke Matsuoka

Crew

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Production Countries

Japan

Production Companies

Image Factory IM Co. Ltd.

Languages

Awards

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Scores
# of Votes
53
Average Rating
5.8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA