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JAPAN · 1964
The Woman in the Dunes
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Synopsis
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
Cinema Atlas Connection
From Japanese cinema, I would say Woman in the Dunes was a strong influence at one point on some things, the sense of imprisonment, the kind of texture of the environment itself.
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