| Description |
2 videodiscs (147 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet. |
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digital optical monaural rda |
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video file DVD video rda |
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Motion picture |
| Series |
The Criterion collection |
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Criterion collection
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| System Details |
DVD, widescreen (1.33:1) ; monaural. |
| Language |
Japanese dialogue; English subtitles. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
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Two-DVD special edition features: High definition digital restoration ; Video essay on the film from 2007 y film scholar James Quandt, 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 Aratra Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan, Trailer, PLUS: An essay by film scholar Audie Bock and a 1978 interview with Teshigahara. |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. |
| Cast |
Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida. |
| Summary |
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 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 |
Man-woman relationships -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Deserts -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Drama.
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Feature films.
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Foreign films, Japanese.
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DVD-video discs.
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| Added Author |
Teshigahara, Hiroshi, film director.
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Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995, actor.
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Kishida, Kyōko, 1930-2006, actor.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781681431970 |
| Standard No. |
715515185011 |
| Music No. |
CC2670DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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