Woman of the Dunes ( Suna no onna )

Woman of the Dunes (DVD) (*)

$26.99

Original Title: Suna no onna
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
141 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1964 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Hiroshi Teshigahara

Written By:
Kôbô Abe

Actors:
Eiji Okada ..... Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Kyôko Kishida ..... Woman
Hiroko Ito ..... Entomologist's wife (in flashbacks)
Kôji Mitsui
Sen Yano
Ginzô Sekiguchi
Kiyohiko Ichiha
Hideo Kanze
Hiroyuki Nishimoto
Tamotsu Tamura

Synopsis:

Hiroshi Teshigahara's powerful masterpiece, based on the novel by Kobo Abe, follows an amateur biologist who escapes the bustle of the city by studying beetles in remote sand dunes. After missing the last bus, he accepts a villager's offer to spend the night in a widow's shack at the bottom of a deep sand pit. In the morning he finds he is trapped. At first enraged, the man's hatred for the woman soon turns to searing, erotic lust. Featuring striking high-contrast photography from Hiroshi Segawa and a minimalist score by composer Toru Takemitsu, Woman Of The Dunes was the second collaboration between director Hiroshi Teshigahara and author Kobo Abe, a film preceded and succeeded by their other classics Pitfall and Face Of Another. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1964.

An amateur entomologist searching for insects by the sea is trapped by local villagers into living with a mysterious woman who spends almost all her time preventing her home from being swallowed up by advancing sand dunes. The woman and the trapped man begin a strange and erotic relationship that stretches over years, as the man's hope for escape dims.

A woman who lives in a sand pit on the beach is given a man. Japanese dialogue with subtitles.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 21 May, 2010.

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