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Woman in the Dunes( 1964)

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82%
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Score

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Eiji Okada

      Entomologist Niki Jumpei

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      Kyôko Kishida

      The Woman

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      Hiroko Itō

      Entomologist's Wife

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      Kōji Mitsui

      Village Elder

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Thu Feb 06 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 f...

    Media

    Videos 2Backdrops 16Posters 56

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • based on novel or book
    • insect
    • sand
    • art house
    • water shortage
    • psychological thriller
    • black and white
    • held captive
    • skin
    • trapped
    • missing person
    • sexual torture
    • sand dune
    • criterion
    • erotic photography
    • water pump
    • japanese new wave
    • slave labor
    • entomologist
    • escape attempt
    • sand pit
    • forced labor
    • texture
    • avant garde
    • disappeared
    • barbaric behavior