--- product_id: 69271766 title: "Woman Of The Dunes [1964] [DVD]" brand: "eiji okadakyôko kishidahiroshi teshigahara" price: "¥10987" currency: JPY in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/69271766-woman-of-the-dunes-1964-dvd store_origin: JP region: Japan --- # Woman Of The Dunes [1964] [DVD] **Brand:** eiji okadakyôko kishidahiroshi teshigahara **Price:** ¥10987 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Woman Of The Dunes [1964] [DVD] by eiji okadakyôko kishidahiroshi teshigahara - **How much does it cost?** ¥10987 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/69271766-woman-of-the-dunes-1964-dvd) ## Best For - eiji okadakyôko kishidahiroshi teshigahara enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted eiji okadakyôko kishidahiroshi teshigahara brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description WOMAN OF THE DUNES A film by Hiroshi Teshigahara When teacher Junpei Niki misses his last bus home after a day out collecting insects on a remote stretch of coast, he is invited by a local villager to take shelter in a young widow's ramshackle hut. Ignoring the fact that her home is at the bottom of a sandpit accessible only by rope ladder, he accepts this hospitality without realising he is the victim of a cruel trick. Trapped, he is forced into an uneasy life with this woman, sharing with her the Sisyphean task of shovelling the sand that threatens to engulf them.Out of this bizarre, if simple, situation, Hiroshi Teshigahara builds an atmospheric, highly charged and remarkably sensual exploration of the human condition. Adapted by Kôbô Abe from his own novel and featuring a chilling, minimalist score by the great avant-garde composer Toru Takemitsu, Woman of the Dunes won a Special Jury Prize at Cannes and was nominated for two Oscars .Woman of the Dunes appears here in the full, original uncut version available for the first time in the UK. Japan | 1964 | black and white | Japan language with English subtitles | 141 minutes | Original aspect ratio 1.33:1Region 2 DVD ## Images ![Woman Of The Dunes [1964] [DVD] - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81e85b+RXJL.jpg) ![Woman Of The Dunes [1964] [DVD] - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91w+1bnKInL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Still a great movie *by D***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2024* Historical movie, it was great to see it again ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars a mesmerizing unforgetable view into an inner, connubial world *by A***I on Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2014* When I looked at this film some years ago I was so amazed at the interplay of male to female, where the male "visitor" is trapped back to earth by his female captor/'host'; a sand pit becomes the entirety of both time and the world to these two where the male character at first finds that not only has his feminine counterpart been waiting for him but he cannot leave, his entomological peregrinations find him a captured specimen himself. He struggles to escape back into shallow knowledge when life overpoweringly waits for him to waken to it and take some interest. He does, and it's as if he could not have knew anything about life before that; he tries to escape once more but is caught in a pool of quicksand, the local villagers pull him out and bring him back to the hut at the bottom of the sand pit. He struggles with vanity, even tries to take the woman captive instead but that proves feeble too; life is overpowering to his self-centered view and he succumbs to another world that had up to then been of no interest to him. Just the scenes of the male character trying to climb free of the sand pit are worth viewing as another metaphor for self-centered need trying to reach an unattainable goal, finding meaning somewhere that repudiates understanding itself. Taking a makeshift grappling hook and trying to break free has to have some similarity to trying to complete a graduate degree, over and over he tries to pull himself toward some point free of the mundane, stultifying sand. But he finally grows to accept having disappeared somewhere where there's not anything more to do than to shovel falling sand night after endless night; acceptance of something in phenomenology/existentialism called "facticity" seems to finally make the predicament more understandable, there's a continuity that becomes more meaningful than the pursuit of a superficial knowledge that he'd had before. Life becomes more involved for somebody who'd actually only had to play everything merely by the numbers before, so the continuity of life had finally re-shaped a character that had only been hovering over it. A memorable movie, worth viewing over and over. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely stunning! *by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2016* CRITERION COLLECTION has done it again! Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes (1964) offers of course the ultimate in cinematographic experience, one of a handful of truly exceptional films that continue to grow on you (I first saw it in 1971). Roger Ebert (in 1998) called it “radical, hard-edged and challenging” and detected an “almost pornographic underlying situation,” for Strictly Film School it is “a spare and haunting allegory of human existence.” In its reincarnation on this superbly re-mastered Blue-ray disc for home viewing, Woman in the Dunes exerts its magic in an even more compelling way.With Woman in the Dunes Teshigahara to me seems uniquely and almost effortlessly to transcend the constraints of his chosen medium as he meshes the different elements of camera, script and soundtrack into a seamless web of meaning. In that sense talk about “Sisyphus” or “parable of life” (Ebert) only gets in the way. As the woman lies asleep naked and exhausted and the camera closes in on the combined texture of skin and sand, all the meaning you want is there. Just watch – and surrender. In the end that’s what the man does as he decides not to “escape” and so finds his freedom: final shots that couldn’t be more haunting for the meaning they convey. Seven years later the authorities finally list him as “missing.” Only then do we find out what he was called. 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