Woman in the dunes

Woman in the dunes / Suna no onna

砂の女 /

DVD - 2016

An amateur entomologist is left in Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in sandy locations. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow 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.

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Subjects
Kidnapping > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > Drama.
Entomologists > Drama.
Widows > Drama.
Sand dunes > Drama.
Experimental films.
Feature films.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Experimental films
Feature films
Film adaptations
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection [2016]
Language
Japanese
English
Corporate Authors
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Teshigahara Purodakushon
Corporate Authors
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha (production company), Teshigahara Purodakushon
Other Authors
Hiroshi Teshigahara (film director), Kiichi Ichikawa, 1923-2006 (film producer), Tadashi (Film producer) Ōno (screenwriter), Kōbō Abe, 1924-1993 (actor), Eiji Okada, 1920-1995 (-), Kyōko Kishida, 1930-2006
Edition
Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
Item Description
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
Based on a novel with the same title by Kōbō Abe.
Fullscreen (1.33:1 aspect ratio).
Special features on disc one: Video essay on the film from 2007 by film scholar James Quandt; Trailer ; on disc two: 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; booklet essay by film scholar Audie Bock and a 1980 interview with Teshigahara.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (147 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; NTSC; region 1; 4:3 presentation; Dolby digital 1.0.
Production Credits
Director of photography, Hiroshi Segawa; editor, Fusako Shuzui; music, Tōru Takemitsu.
ISBN
9781681431970
  • Disc 1. Main feature
  • Disc 2. Teshigahara and Abe.
Review by Library Journal Review

The battle of the sexes.-Bette-Lee Fox © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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