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Woman in the Dunes
1964NR2h 27m8.2 / 10
Haunting. Erotic. Unforgettable.
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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Synopsis
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.
Cast, crew and production details
About Woman in the Dunes
Cast
Eiji OkadaEntomologist Niki Jumpei
Kyôko KishidaThe WomanHiroko ItōEntomologist's Wife
Kōji MitsuiVillage ElderCredits
- Directed by
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Written by
- Kōbō Abe, Kōbō Abe
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Original title
- 砂の女
Production
- Teshigahara ProductionsJapan
TOHOJapan
Themes
art houseavant gardebarbaric behaviorbased on novel or bookblack and whitedisappearedentomologisterotic photographyescape attemptforced laborheld captiveinsectjapanese new wavemissing person
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