東宝 ; 製作勅使河原プロダクション ; 原作・脚本安部公房 ; 製作市川喜一, 大野忠 ; 監督勅使河原宏 = produced by Teshigahara ; screenplay, Kōbō Abe ; producers, Kiichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Ōno ; director, Hiroshi Teshigahara = produit par Teshigahara ; scénario original et adaptation, Kōbō Abe ; producteurs, Kiichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Ōno ; mise en scěne, Hiroshi Teshigahara.

Publication Info.

[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]

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Location	Call No.	Status
Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Department	DVD WOMAN IN THE DUNES DISC 1-2	Check Shelf
Simsbury Public Library - DVDs	DVD FOREIGN WOMAN	Check Shelf
South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials	DVD WOMAN IN THE DUNES DISC 1-2	Check Shelf

Edition	Two-DVD special edition.
Description	2 videodiscs (147 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
	digital optical monaural rda
	video file DVD video rda
	Motion picture
Series	The Criterion collection ; 394
	Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 394.
System Details	DVD; NTSC; region 1; 4:3 presentation; Dolby digital 1.0.
Cast	Eiji Okada, Kyōko Kishida.
	岡田英次, 岸田今日子.
Credits	Director of photography, Hiroshi Segawa; editor, Fusako Shuzui; music, Tōru Takemitsu.
Note	Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
	Based on a novel with the same title by Kōbō Abe.
	Fullscreen (1.33:1 aspect ratio).
Summary	An amateur entomologist is left in Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in sandy locations. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema's most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean struggle of everyday life.
Note	Special features on disc one: Video essay on the film from 2007 by film scholar James Quandt; Trailer ; on disc two: Four short films from director Hiroshi Teshigahara's early career: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako (1965); Teshigahara and Abe, a 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring interviews with film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, film programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan; booklet essay by film scholar Audie Bock and a 1980 interview with Teshigahara.
Language	Japanese dialogue; optional English subtitles.
Subject	Kidnapping -- Drama.
	Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
	Entomologists -- Drama.
	Widows -- Drama.
	Sand dunes -- Drama.
	Deserts. (OCoLC)fst00891230
	Entomologists. (OCoLC)fst00912732
	Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
	Melodrama. (OCoLC)fst01015770
	Sand dunes. (OCoLC)fst01104857
	Widows. (OCoLC)fst01174951
Genre/Form	Experimental films.
	Feature films.
	Film adaptations.
	Fiction films.
	Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
	Experimental films. (OCoLC)fst01710354
	Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
	Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
	Film adaptations. (OCoLC)fst01710491
Added Author	Teshigahara, Hiroshi, film director.
	Ichikawa, Kiichi, 1923-2006, film producer.
	Ōno, Tadashi (Film producer), film producer.
	Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995, actor.
	Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993, screenwriter.
	Kishida, Kyōko, 1930-2006, actor.
	Motion picture adaptation of (work): Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993. Suna no onna.
	Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, production company.
	Teshigahara Purodakushon, production company.
	Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
Note	English title on container and disc label: Woman in the dunes
Standard No.	715515185011
ISBN	9781681431970
	1681431971
Music No.	CC2670DDVD The Criterion Collection

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