Woman in the Dunes

Woman in the Dunes

1964 | 2h 27m | Drama | TV-MA

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Brief Synopsis

A man is forced to live with a mysterious woman who spends her time shoveling sand to prevent her home from being swallowed by sand dunes.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Hiroshi Teshigahara

CAST

Eiji Okada

Kyoko Kishida

Hiroko Ito

Koji Mitsui

PRODUCERS

Kiichi Ichikawa

Tadashi Ono

WRITERS

Kobo Abe

Kobo Abe

Host Intros

01:20
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Woman In The Dunes (1964)
Intro Aired: Apr 2016
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Woman In The Dunes, 1964.

Related Videos

Woman In The Dunes -- (Movie Clip) Swallowed Up
Clip
Having missed the bus home, happy to be put up for the night, "The Man" (Eiji Okada) fiddles with his bugs and converses with "The Woman" (Kyoko Kishida) in her sand-immersed home, in Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman In The Dunes, 1964.
Woman In The Dunes -- (Movie Clip) It's Not Impossible
Clip
After waking up hallucinating, "The Man" (Eiji Okada) discovers that the mysterious villagers intend for him to stay in the sand-surrounded home of "The Woman" (Kyoko Kishida), in Woman In The Dunes, 1964.
Woman In The Dunes -- (Movie Clip) I Collect Bugs
Clip
Microscopic shots of sand, and bugs, music by Toru Takemitsu, and teacher-entomologist Eiji Okada ("The Man") staggering around, opening Hiroshi Teshigahara's celebrated Woman In The Dunes, 1964.

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