Woman in the Dunes
Summary:
When entomologist Jumpei (Eiji Okada) travels to sand dunes on an expedition, he is met by a group of people who offer him a place to spend the night. They soon lead him to a house at the bottom of a sandpit. Upon climbing into the pit, he finds a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) living alone. Placed there by the villagers, her task is to dig sand out of the pit -- not only so that th... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Eiji Okada - (Niki Jumpei)
Kyoko Kishida - (Woman)
Koji Mitsui
Hiroko Ito - (Jumpei's Wife)
Sen Yano
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Review:
Woman in the Dunes is a landmark of 1960s art-house cinema that mesmerizes with its hypnotic logic and seduces with its lush sensuality. Recalling the existentialist absurdity of Jean-Paul Sartre's -No Exit and Samuel Beckett's -Happy Days, director Hiroshi Teshigahara spins this deceptively simple parable about a man inexplicably stuc... Continue >>
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