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Woman in the Dunes is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara released in USA on 25 october 1964 with Eiji Okada
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
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Add to a movie listThe Woman in the Dunes or The Woman of the Dunes (砂の女, Suna no Onna, "Sand woman") is a 1964 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and starring Eiji Okada and Kyōko Kishida. It received positive critical reviews and was nominated for two Academy Awards. The screenplay for the film was adapted by Kōbō Abe from his 1962 novel of the same name.
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A schoolteacher, Junpei Niki (Eiji Okada), is on an expedition to collect insects that inhabit sand dunes. When he misses the last bus, villagers suggest he stay the night. They guide him down a rope ladder to a house in a sand quarry where a young widow (Kyōko Kishida) lives alone. She is employed by the villagers to dig sand for sale and to save the house from burial in the advancing sand.Actors
Eiji Okada
(Entomologist Niki Jumpei)
Kyōko Kishida
(The Woman)
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