Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) (1964)
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The Sands hide Truth to Existence.
An amateur entomologist searching for insects by the sea is trapped by local villagers into living with a mysterious woman who spends almost all her time preventing her home from being swallowed up by advancing sand dunes.
Eiji Okada: Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Kyôko Kishida: Woman
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"4.11. 2024 The inhabitants of a remote village trick a teacher who is collecting insects in the dunes and take him prisoner and enslave him. He is forced to live in a sandpit with a woman who shovels sand at night. The man is faced with a moral dilemma: his pride doesn't allow him to be blackmailed but in the other hand, if he doesn't help the woman, both of them are going to be buried in sand. Hiroshi Teshigahara's dark and thought-provoking masterpiece shows how a civilized man is stripped o"
“(OK) Takes long time and lot of sand, to build his tale. The woman is imposibble to catch that's the idea, is as 'unsaisable' as the sand. The hero is imaginative to make devises to escape but not to establusbh human relations, that burdens the film...great photography...” read more
" Notes: First of all, it is obvious that you can't really analyse this movie as a straightforward story as the concept was rather preposterous. I mean, let's assume that this village would really need to dig the sand to survive, it would be much easier and efficient to send some of the local villagers every 3 months willingly going down there for a specific period of time instead of kidnapping some poor random guy. Eventually, it was a very subtle parable but did I really get what the director "
" Notes: First of all, it is obvious that you can't really analyse this movie as a straightforward story as the concept was rather preposterous. I mean, let's assume that this village would really need to dig the sand to survive, it would be much easier and efficient to send some of the local villagers every 3 months willingly going down there for a specific period of time instead of kidnapping some poor random guy. Eventually, it was a very subtle parable but did I really get what the director "