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Woman in the Dunes
1964
Haunting. Erotic. Unforgettable.
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara
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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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- Director
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Written by
- Kōbō Abe
- Produced by
- Kiichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Ôno
- Composer
- Toru Takemitsu
- Cinematographer
- Hiroshi Segawa
- Editor
- Fusako Shuzui
- Studios
- TOHO, Teshigahara Productions
- Origin country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 2h 27m
- Language
- Japanese
- Rating
- NR
- Also known as
- Woman of the Dunes
- TMDB
- 8.2/10 (539 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 100% Fresh
- IMDb
- 8.4/10 (26,724 votes)
Released February 15, 1964·砂の女
Awards
- NominatedAcademy Award— Best Director(1966)
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Keywords
insectbased on novel or booksandwater shortageart housepsychological thrillerblack and whiteheld captiveskintrappedmissing personsexual torturesand duneerotic photographywater pumpjapanese new waveslave laborentomologistescape attemptsand pitforced labortextureavant gardedisappearedbarbaric behaviorareia
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