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JAPAN · 1964
The Woman in the Dunes
Japanese Golden Age
captivity and imprisonment
labor and exploitation
existential isolation
human entrapment
village society and conformity
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Synopsis
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
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From Japanese cinema, I would say Woman in the Dunes was a strong influence at one point on some things, the sense of imprisonment, the kind of texture of the environment itself.
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captivity and imprisonment · labor and exploitation · existential isolation · human entrapment · village society and conformity
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