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Bookmark this pageWoman of the Dunes (1964)
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An entomologist finds himself trapped by mysteriously tribal villagers, and forced to cohabit with a desirable but inarticulate woman in an escape-proof sandpit. Leaving aside all the teasing questions of allegorical meaning, Teshigahara's film is a tour de force of visual style, and a knockout as an unusually cruel thriller. It builds on its blatantly contrived premise (taken from Kobo Abé's novel) with absolute fidelity and conviction, which leaves the manifest pretensions looking both credible and interesting, and centres its effects on the erotic attraction between the man and woman, filmed with a palpable physicality that remains extraordinary.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Producer: Kiichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Ohono
Cast: Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida full cast
Rated: 12A
Duration: 127 mins
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