Woman in the Dunes
About Woman in the Dunes
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.
Woman in the Dunes is a 1964 thriller film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eiji Okada takes the lead as Entomologist Niki Jumpei, Kyôko Kishida as The Woman, Kōji Mitsui as Village Elder, and Hiroko Itō as Entomologist's Wife.
At 147 minutes long, it arrived in February 1964. Written by Kōbō Abe. It is adapted from a novel.
Members will find missing person, trapped, held captive, and insect in it. American members can watch it on Criterion Channel and Darkroom. It scores 8.2 out of 10 from 555 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.
Dune, Shutter Island, and Gone Girl make useful companions to Woman in the Dunes, all filed under sand, sand dune, and water shortage.