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Woman in the dunes / Janus Films ; Toho ; Sogetsu Foundation ; Teshigahara Productions ; a film by Hiroshi Teshigahara ; director, Hiroshi Teshigahara ; story from the novel by Kobo Abe ; producers, Kiichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Ono.
LIBRA DVD 010 200
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993, author, screenwriter.
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 394.
- Criterion collection ; 394
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993.
- Entomologists--Drama.
- Entomologists.
- Widows--Drama.
- Widows.
- Sand dunes.
- Sand dunes--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993--Film adaptations.
- Abe, Kōbō.
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Feature films.
- Experimental films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Japenese title: Suna no onna
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2007.
- Language Note:
- In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital mono., NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- An amateur entomologist leaves Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night in the home of a young widow who lives in a hut at the bottom of a sand dune.
- Participant:
- Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Hiroshi Segawa ; art directors, Totetsu Hirakawa, Masao Yamazaki ; editor, Fusako Shuzui ; original music, Toru Takemitsu.
- Notes:
- Title on set container: Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara.
- Title from container and disc sleeve.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
- Set contains three feature films by Hiroshi Teshigahara.
- Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer; video essay on the film by critic and festival programmer James Quandt; theatrical trailer.
- Winner of the Special Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival; Academy Award nominee for Best Director & Best Foreign Film
- ISBN:
- 1934121673
- 9781934121672
- 1934121428
- 9781934121429
- OCLC:
- 156913357
- Publisher Number:
- 715515024624 set
- CC1700D Criterion Collection (set)
- CC1702D Criterion Collection (disc)
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