Woman in the dunes
(DVD)
Contributors
Teshigahara, Hiroshi, film director.
Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995 actor.
Kishida, Kyōko, 1930-2006, actor.
Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993 Suna no onna.
TMhM Kabushiki Kaisha, production company.
Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995 actor.
Kishida, Kyōko, 1930-2006, actor.
Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993 Suna no onna.
TMhM Kabushiki Kaisha, production company.
Published
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016].
ISBN
9781681431970, 1681431971
Status
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Copies
| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cicero Public Library - Stacks | DVD WOM | On Shelf |
| Oak Lawn Public Library - AV | DVD FOREIGN WOMAN | Checked out |
| Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Video | DVD WORLD JAPANESE W | On Shelf |
| Thomas Ford Memorial Library - Stacks | DVD WOM | On Shelf |
More Details
Published
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 147 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Japanese
ISBN
9781681431970, 1681431971
UPC
715515185011
Notes
General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
General Note
Story from the novel by Kobo Abe.
General Note
Special features: Video essay on the film from 2007 by 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 Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan; Trailer. Booklet includes an essay "Shifting sands" by film scholar Audie Bock and a 1980 interview with Teshigahara.
Participants/Performers
Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida.
Description
An amateur entomologist is left in 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.
Target Audience
[Not rated].
System Details
DVD, NTSC region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
Language
In Japanese with English subtitles.
Local note
DVD
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Teshigahara, H., Okada, E., Kishida, K., & Abe, K. (2016). Woman in the dunes (Two-DVD special edition.). The Criterion Collection.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hiroshi, Teshigahara et al.. 2016. Woman in the Dunes. [New York, N.Y.]: The Criterion Collection.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hiroshi, Teshigahara et al.. Woman in the Dunes [New York, N.Y.]: The Criterion Collection, 2016.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Teshigahara, H., Okada, E., Kishida, K. and Abe, K. (2016). Woman in the dunes. Two-DVD special edn. [New York, N.Y.]: The Criterion Collection.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Teshigahara, Hiroshi,, Eiji Okada, Kyōko Kishida, and Kōbō Abe. Woman in the Dunes Two-DVD special edition., The Criterion Collection, 2016.
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