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VHS NTSC Item#:JPN123-1
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"Woman in the Dunes"
1964
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara
A woman, confined to a deep pit in the sand dunes,
where she is fed by neighbors and forced to clear her house of the
threatening sands, is joined by a passing photographer whom the villagers
have trapped into sharing her work--and bed--forever. This is the situation
of Teshigahara's great symbolic and sensual adaptation of Kobo Abe's novel,
in which he "builds up the erotic tension...with extreme close-ups that
transform the human body into landscape" (Oxford Companion to Film).
With Eija Okada and Kyoko Kishida. Remastered from the original negative.
Japanese with English subtitles. 127 minutes. |
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