| Description |
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical monaural rda |
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full screen (1.33:1) |
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video file Blu-ray rda |
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Motion picture |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 394.
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| System Details |
Blu-ray ; region A ; aspect ratio 1:33:1 ; monoaural ; requires Blu-ray player, monaural. |
| Language |
Japanese dialogue; optional English subtitles. |
| Cast |
Eiji Okada, Kyōko Kishida. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Hiroshi Segawa; editor, Fusako Shuzui; music, Tōru Takemitsu. |
| Note |
Based on a novel with the same title by Kōbō Abe. |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. |
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Fullscreen (1.33:1 aspect ratio). |
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Special features: Video essay on the film from 2007 by film scholar James Quandt; Trailer ; Four short films from director Hiroshi Teshigahara's early career: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako (1965); Teshigahara and Abe, a 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring interviews with film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, film programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan; booklet essay by film scholar Audie Bock and a 1980 interview with Teshigahara. |
| Summary |
An amateur entomologist is left in Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in sandy locations. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema's most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean struggle of everyday life. |
| Subject |
Kidnapping -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Entomologists -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Widows -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Sand dunes -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993 -- Film adaptations.
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| Genre |
Experimental films.
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Feature films.
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Film adaptations.
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Fiction films.
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Foreign films, Japanese.
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Japanese language materials.
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Blu-ray discs.
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| Added Author |
Teshigahara, Hiroshi, film director.
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Ichikawa, Kiichi, 1923-2006, film producer.
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Ōno, Tadashi (Film producer), film producer.
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Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993, screenwriter.
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Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995, actor.
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Kishida, Kyōko, 1930-2006, actor.
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Motion picture adaptation of (work): Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993.
Suna no onna.
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Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, production company.
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Teshigahara Purodakushon, production company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| Note |
Suna no onna |
| Standard No. |
715515184915 |
| Music No. |
CC2669BD The Criterion Collection |
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