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Woman in the Dunes (1964) (b/w, Criterion Collection)

English · Blu-ray

US Version | Region code A
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One of the 1960s’ great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eiji Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in a vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema’s most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean struggle of everyday life—an achievement that garnered Teshigahara an Academy Award nomination for best director.

- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Video essay on the film from 2007 by film scholar James Quandt
- Four short films from director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s early career: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako (1965)
- Teshigahara and Abe, a 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring interviews with film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, film programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan
- Trailer
- Plus: An essay by film scholar Audie Bock and a 1980 interview with Teshigahara

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Director Hiroshi Teshigahara
Director of movie camera Hiroshi Segawa
Actor Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida, Koji Mitsui
Screenplay Kobo Abe
Label CRITERION
 
Genre Drama
Thriller
Content Blu-ray
Publication date 23.08.2016
Region code A
Edition b/w, Criterion Collection
Version US Version
Original title Suna no onna (Japanese)
Year of production 1964
Audio Japanese
Subtitles English
 

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