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Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Suna no onna (original title)

123 min  -  Drama | Thriller   -  25 October 1964 (USA)
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Jumpei Niki, a Tokyo based entomologist and educator, is in a poor seaside village collecting specimens of sand insects... See full summary »

Writers:

Kôbô Abe (novel), Kôbô Abe (screenplay), and 1 more credit »
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Cast

Credited cast:
Eiji Okada ...
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Kyôko Kishida ...
Woman
Hiroko Itô Hiroko Itô ...
Entomologist's wife (in flashbacks)
Kôji Mitsui Kôji Mitsui
Sen Yano Sen Yano
Ginzô Sekiguchi Ginzô Sekiguchi
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kiyohiko Ichiha Kiyohiko Ichiha
Hideo Kanze Hideo Kanze
Hiroyuki Nishimoto Hiroyuki Nishimoto
Tamotsu Tamura Tamotsu Tamura
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Storyline

Jumpei Niki, a Tokyo based entomologist and educator, is in a poor seaside village collecting specimens of sand insects. As it is late in the day and as he has missed the last bus back to the city, some of the local villagers suggest that he spend the night there, they offering to find him a place to stay. That place is the home of a young woman, whose house is located at the bottom of a sand pit accessible only by ladder. He later learns that the woman's husband and child died in a sandstorm, their undiscovered bodies buried somewhere near the house. The next morning as he tries to leave, he finds that the ladder is gone - he realizing that the ladder he climbed down was a rope ladder which is anchored above the pit - meaning that he is trapped with the young woman as the walls of the pit are sand with no grip. He also realizes that this entrapment was the villagers and the young woman's... Written by Huggo  

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Plot Keywords:

Sand | Insect | Entomologist | Sandstorm | Sand Dune  | See more »

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Haunting. Erotic. Unforgettable.

Genres:

Drama | Thriller

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Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

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Also Known As:

A Mulher de Areia See more »

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Runtime:

 | (director's cut)

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
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Trivia

Eiji Okada improvised much of the first dinner scene. See more »

Quotes

Woman: But... aren't the girls in Tokyo prettier than me?
Entomologist Niki Jumpei: Nonsense!
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