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Suna no onna = Woman in the dunes / Eishin ; director, Hiroshi Teshigahara ; producers, Kiichi Ishikawa, Tadashi Ōno; screenplay, Kōbō Abe.
LIBRA DVD 010 198
Available from offsite location
LIBRA DVD 010 199
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Milestone collection
- The milestone collection
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993--Film adaptations.
- Abe, Kōbō.
- Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993.
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Woman in the dunes
- Woman of the dunes
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Milestone Film & Video : Image Entertainment, [1998]
- Language Note:
- Japanese with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- An entomologist is tricked by villagers into spending the night in a shack in a sandpit with a widow whose task is endlessly to haul away sand. He finds he cannot escape and gradually develops an intense bond with his companion and resigns himself to a lifetime of hypnotic routine.
- Participant:
- Kishida Kyōko, Okada Eiji, Mitsui Sōji, Itō Hiroko.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Hiroshi Segawa; editor, Fusako Shuzui; music, Toru Takemitsu.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964.
- Based on the novel of the same title by Kōbō Abe.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the American Honda Motor Company Fund.
- OCLC:
- 43399556
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