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Woman in the Dunes (1964)

NR Feb 15, 1964 Drama, Thriller 2h 27m
82%
User Score
8.5/10
100%

Haunting. Erotic. Unforgettable.

Overview

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.

Hiroshi Teshigahara
Director
Kōbō Abe
Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Eiji Okada
Eiji Okada

Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Kyôko Kishida
Kyôko Kishida

The Woman
Hiroko Itō
Hiroko Itō

Entomologist's Wife
Kōji Mitsui
Kōji Mitsui

Village Elder

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Media

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A review by hanszha
Written on December 15, 2023

- to me utterly & completely incomprehensable that this movie has been so neglected , Not included in - more 'popular' -watchlists ( or 'best movie' -lists ... ) - it is a Grand Feast for the eyes and the mind :
the story , the acting , the photography is of such superb level !!! - i would hot hesitate to rate it ( - actually with many movie-'professionals' ... ) as among the top twenty best ( cinema-proper ) films ever made ....

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on February 6, 2025

Yikes, but for a film almost entirely set outdoors it’s remarkably claustrophobic! It’s about the exploring bug hunter “Jumpei” (Eiji Okada) who finds himself a bit lost out in the sand dunes after he misses the last bus of the day. A friendly villager offers him some shelter for the night, buy boy is he ill-prepared for quite what that man, and his entire village, has in store. He is placed with a widow, but when he wakes in the morning discovers that her home is deep within a sand well and the only way out is the ladder he climbed down to enter - and that’s gone! It’s a precarious existence for this women (Kyôko Kishida) for if she doesn’t keep the sand levels down, they will swamp her home and swallow her up. The villagers assist in so far as they help dispose of the coll...

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