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Woman in the Dunes or Woman of the Dunes (砂の女, Suna No Onna, "Sand Woman") is a 1964 Japanese New Wave avant-garde psychological thriller and drama film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, starring Eiji Okada as an entomologist searching for insects and Kyōko Kishida as the titular woman.
An entomologist is trapped by villagers in a sand pit with a woman whose life is shoveling sand. The film explores existential themes of life, death, and meaninglessness in a harsh and beautiful setting.
I watched Woman in the Dunes in college for a course on Japanese literature. I've never forgotten the image of the woman who must dig herself out of the sands each day just to survive. A remarkable metaphor for life.
A classic Japanese film by Hiroshi Teshigahara, based on a novel by Kobo Abe, about a man trapped in a desert with a widow. Learn about the film's production, themes, music, and special features on this web page.
A man trapped in a sandpit with a woman who shovels sand for survival. A modern parable of life, love and fate, with stunning cinematography and score.
The Woman in the Dunes ( Japanese: 砂の女, Hepburn: Suna no Onna, lit. "Sand Woman") is a novel by the Japanese writer Kōbō Abe, published in 1962. It won the 1962 Yomiuri Prize for literature, and an English translation by E. Dale Saunders, and a film adaptation, directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, appeared in 1964.
Eiji Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in a vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune.
