Woman in the Dunes
砂の女
Haunting. Erotic. Unforgettable.
Overview
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
- Production
- Teshigahara Productions, TOHO
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Cast
Crew
- Director
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Writers
- Kōbō Abe
- Producers
- Kiichi Ichikawa,Tadashi Ôno
- Cinematography
- Hiroshi Segawa
- Composer
- Toru Takemitsu
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hanszha
December 15, 2023
- to me utterly & completely incomprehensable that this movie has been so neglected , Not included in - more 'popular' -watchlists ( or 'best movie' -lists ... ) - it is a Grand Feast for the eyes and the mind : the story , the acting , the photography is of such superb level !!! - i would hot hesitate to rate it ( - actually with many movie-'professionals' ... ) as among the top twenty best ( cinema-proper ) films ever made .
CinemaSerf
February 6, 2025
Yikes, but for a film almost entirely set outdoors it’s remarkably claustrophobic! It’s about the exploring bug hunter “Jumpei” (Eiji Okada) who finds himself a bit lost out in the sand dunes after he misses the last bus of the day. A friendly villager offers him some shelter for the night, buy boy is he ill-prepared for quite what that man, and his entire village, has in store. He is placed with a widow, but when he wakes in the morning discovers that her home is deep within a sand well and the…