Description
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.
Product details
Director | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
Director of movie camera | Hiroshi Segawa |
Actor | Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida, Koji Mitsui |
Screenplay | Kobo Abe |
Label | Trigon-Film |
Genre |
Drama
Thriller |
Content | DVD |
FSK / age rating | from age 16 |
Edition | b/w, Trigon-Film |
Audio | Japanese |
Subtitles | German |
Length | 147 Minutes |
Screen | 1.33:1, 4/3 |
Year of production | 1964 |
Original title | Suna no onna (Japanese) |
Region code | 0 |
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