WOMAN IN THE DUNES - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1964
• Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: One of the 1960s' great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eiji Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in a vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) 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 everyday life as a Sisyphean struggle an achievement that garnered Teshigahara an Academy Award nomination for best director.;
• Cast: Kyôko Kishida, Eiji Okada, Hiroko Itô, Kôji Mitsui, Sen Yano, Ginzô Sekiguchi, Robert Dunham, Kiyohiko Ichihara, Hideo Kanze, Hiroyuki Nishimoto, Tamotsu Tamura, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Kôbô Abe, Eiko Yoshida, Kiichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Ôno, Hiroshi Segawa, Fusako Shuzui, Tôru Takemitsu, Ichirô Katô, Keiji Mori, Shigenosuke Okuyama, Tôtetsu Hirakawa, Masao Yamazaki
• Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
• Runtime: 2:27
• Company: Toho Company Limited, Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd., Teshigahara Productions, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie