Woman in the Dunes
One of the sixties' great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic worldview of Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eija Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert; when he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night in the home of a young widow (Kiyoko Kishida) who lives in a hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema’s most bristling, unnerving, and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of everyday Sisyphean struggle, for which Teshigahara received an Academy Award nomination for best director.
Starring Eiji Okada, Kyōko Kishida, Hiroko Itō, Kōji Mitsui, Sen Yano, Ginzô Sekiguchi
Watch "Woman in the Dunes" from streaming services Criterion Channel, Apple TV+ (itunes) released in 1964. It's a drama and thriller movie, and has a rating of 8.5 out of 10 from Imdb which is very high for this kind of movie.
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