Dyynien daami

Original title: Suna no onna

19641964
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2h 27m

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An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

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8.5/10

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Director
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
Writers
- Kôbô Abe(novel)
- Eiko Yoshida(scripter)
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Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 10 wins & 3 nominations total

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Trivia
For this film, Hiroshi Teshigahara became the first Japanese director to be nominated for a Oscar for directing.

Goofs
The beard of teacher Jumpei is not growing, despite him even complaining about no opportunity to shorten it.

Quotes
Entomologist Niki Jumpei: The certificates we use to make certain of one another: contracts, licenses, ID cards, permits, deeds, certifications, registrations, carry permits, union cards, testimonials, bills, IOUs, temporary permits, letters of consent, income statements, certificates of custody, even proof of pedigree. Is that all of them? Have I forgotten any? Men and women are slaves to their fear of being cheated. In turn they dream up new certificates to prove their innocence. No one can say where it will end. They seem endless.

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Featured in Music for the Movies: Tôru Takemitsu (1994)

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8/10

Slow pacing, yet intensly gripping!

What is heralded as a classic piece of Japanese cinema and I suppose a rave at Cannes during it's time, Woman In the Dunes is a great film but certainly not to everyones tastes.

A man who is searching for a unique insect in a sandy dessert area ends up trapped in a sandpit where a young woman lives. It becomes apparant that while the man can not escape the woman decides this is her future and that there is little she can do but accept it.

The film is an old black and white film, and many a times it is hard to see what is going on. The story is slow paced, and there is a lot of confusion through much of the film as to why the characters are in this 'unusual' situation. However, I completely got into it and was absorbed by the man who was felt trapped like an animal, and the woman who was accepting of her fate and somewhat comfortable. Also the shots of the dunes are spectacular, the film feels totaly claustrophobic, and it's one of this films which you keep asking yourself every 5 minutes, "How the heck did the film this!?".

But because of its slow nature and somewhat snail pacing and payoff many might not like it. Too bad.

Rating 8 out of 10.

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