JAPAN · 1964

The Woman in the Dunes

Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japanese Golden Age captivity and imprisonment labor and exploitation existential isolation human entrapment village society and conformity
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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.

Year1964
CountryJapan
DirectorHiroshi Teshigahara
The Woman in the Dunes poster

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