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

Cast

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

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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