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# Woman in the Dunes (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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## Description

One of the 1960s great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara (The Face of Another). Eiji Okada (Hiroshima mon amour) plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in a vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) 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 an achievement that garnered Teshigahara an Academy Award nomination for best director.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack- Video essay on the film from 2007 by film scholar James Quandt- 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- Trailer- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Audie Bock and a 1980 interview with Teshigahara

Review: Surprisingly First Rate with bonuses. - Very nice DVD with two disks and a booklet, English subtitles and excellent quality, I’ll buy from this seller again.
Review: a mesmerizing unforgetable view into an inner, connubial world - When I looked at this film some years ago I was so amazed at the interplay of male to female, where the male "visitor" is trapped back to earth by his female captor/'host'; a sand pit becomes the entirety of both time and the world to these two where the male character at first finds that not only has his feminine counterpart been waiting for him but he cannot leave, his entomological peregrinations find him a captured specimen himself. He struggles to escape back into shallow knowledge when life overpoweringly waits for him to waken to it and take some interest. He does, and it's as if he could not have knew anything about life before that; he tries to escape once more but is caught in a pool of quicksand, the local villagers pull him out and bring him back to the hut at the bottom of the sand pit. He struggles with vanity, even tries to take the woman captive instead but that proves feeble too; life is overpowering to his self-centered view and he succumbs to another world that had up to then been of no interest to him. Just the scenes of the male character trying to climb free of the sand pit are worth viewing as another metaphor for self-centered need trying to reach an unattainable goal, finding meaning somewhere that repudiates understanding itself. Taking a makeshift grappling hook and trying to break free has to have some similarity to trying to complete a graduate degree, over and over he tries to pull himself toward some point free of the mundane, stultifying sand. But he finally grows to accept having disappeared somewhere where there's not anything more to do than to shovel falling sand night after endless night; acceptance of something in phenomenology/existentialism called "facticity" seems to finally make the predicament more understandable, there's a continuity that becomes more meaningful than the pursuit of a superficial knowledge that he'd had before. Life becomes more involved for somebody who'd actually only had to play everything merely by the numbers before, so the continuity of life had finally re-shaped a character that had only been hovering over it. A memorable movie, worth viewing over and over.

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Drama
- **Format:** Subtitled, Widescreen
- **Contributor:** Eiji Okada, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Kyoko Kishida
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 2 hours and 27 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Surprisingly First Rate with bonuses.
*by S***T on December 5, 2025*

Very nice DVD with two disks and a booklet, English subtitles and excellent quality, I’ll buy from this seller again.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ a mesmerizing unforgetable view into an inner, connubial world
*by A***I on June 8, 2014*

When I looked at this film some years ago I was so amazed at the interplay of male to female, where the male "visitor" is trapped back to earth by his female captor/'host'; a sand pit becomes the entirety of both time and the world to these two where the male character at first finds that not only has his feminine counterpart been waiting for him but he cannot leave, his entomological peregrinations find him a captured specimen himself. He struggles to escape back into shallow knowledge when life overpoweringly waits for him to waken to it and take some interest. He does, and it's as if he could not have knew anything about life before that; he tries to escape once more but is caught in a pool of quicksand, the local villagers pull him out and bring him back to the hut at the bottom of the sand pit. He struggles with vanity, even tries to take the woman captive instead but that proves feeble too; life is overpowering to his self-centered view and he succumbs to another world that had up to then been of no interest to him. Just the scenes of the male character trying to climb free of the sand pit are worth viewing as another metaphor for self-centered need trying to reach an unattainable goal, finding meaning somewhere that repudiates understanding itself. Taking a makeshift grappling hook and trying to break free has to have some similarity to trying to complete a graduate degree, over and over he tries to pull himself toward some point free of the mundane, stultifying sand. But he finally grows to accept having disappeared somewhere where there's not anything more to do than to shovel falling sand night after endless night; acceptance of something in phenomenology/existentialism called "facticity" seems to finally make the predicament more understandable, there's a continuity that becomes more meaningful than the pursuit of a superficial knowledge that he'd had before. Life becomes more involved for somebody who'd actually only had to play everything merely by the numbers before, so the continuity of life had finally re-shaped a character that had only been hovering over it. A memorable movie, worth viewing over and over.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Absolutely stunning!
*by A***R on November 25, 2016*

CRITERION COLLECTION has done it again! Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes (1964) offers of course the ultimate in cinematographic experience, one of a handful of truly exceptional films that continue to grow on you (I first saw it in 1971). Roger Ebert (in 1998) called it “radical, hard-edged and challenging” and detected an “almost pornographic underlying situation,” for Strictly Film School it is “a spare and haunting allegory of human existence.” In its reincarnation on this superbly re-mastered Blue-ray disc for home viewing, Woman in the Dunes exerts its magic in an even more compelling way. With Woman in the Dunes Teshigahara to me seems uniquely and almost effortlessly to transcend the constraints of his chosen medium as he meshes the different elements of camera, script and soundtrack into a seamless web of meaning. In that sense talk about “Sisyphus” or “parable of life” (Ebert) only gets in the way. As the woman lies asleep naked and exhausted and the camera closes in on the combined texture of skin and sand, all the meaning you want is there. Just watch – and surrender. In the end that’s what the man does as he decides not to “escape” and so finds his freedom: final shots that couldn’t be more haunting for the meaning they convey. Seven years later the authorities finally list him as “missing.” Only then do we find out what he was called. MESMERIZING!

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