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Woman in the dunes [videorecording] = Suna no onna /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: ID5938MLSDVD | Image EntertainmentLanguage: Japanese Summary language: English Original language: Japanese Series: Milestone collectionPublication details: Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, c1999.Description: 1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • Suna no onna
  • Title on container: Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the dunes
Uniform titles:
  • Suna no onna (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.F67 S863 1999
Production credits:
  • Producers, Kiichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Ono ; director of photography, Hiroshi Segawa ; editor, Fusako Shuzui ; music, Tohru Takemitsu.
Awards:
  • Winner of the Special Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival; Academy Award nominee for Best Director & Best Foreign Film.
Cast: Kishida Kyōko, Okada Eiji, Mitsui Sōji, Itō Hiroko.Summary: An amateur biologist escapes the bustle of the city by studying beetles in remote sand dunes. After missing the last bus, he accepts a villager's offer to spend the night in a widow's shack at the bottom of a deep sand pit. In the morning he finds he is trapped. At first enraged, the man's hatred for the woman soon turns to searing, erotic lust.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 0143 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050090009

Based on a novel with the same title by Kōbō Abe.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964.

Restored from the original negatives with new subtitles.

Includes original Japanese theatrical trailer.

"Milestone film & video."

Not rated.

DVD.

Japanese dialogue, English subtitles.

Winner of the Special Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival; Academy Award nominee for Best Director & Best Foreign Film.

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