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Woman in the Dunes

Cast

Eiji Okada, Ky?ko Kishida, Ginzô Sekiguchi, K?ji Mitsui View All


Crew

Hiroshi Teshigahara (Director), K?b? Abe (Screenplay) View All

Release: Feb. 15th, 1964
Runtime: 2 hours, 27 minutes
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.
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Iroquois
That's a minor nit-pick within the greater context of this film (if not a subtle metaphor of its own that suggests a serious short-sightedness on Okada's part) as Woman in the Dunes crafts a reasonably compelling tale of imprisonment and the associated psychological trauma.
Dog Star Man
In approaching [i]Woman in the Dunes[/i], like many Hiroshi Teshigahara films that precurse it, one must think in the realm of metaphors and interpretations underneath the visual surface..
Golgot
One of those films about everything and nothing, [i]Woman of the Dunes[/i] is beautifully filmed, full of contradictions (that make sense), and treacherously hard to define..
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