Suna no onna : Woman in the dunes /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Janus Films, Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Sogetsu Foundation (Firm), Teshigahara Purodakushon, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Teshigahara, Hiroshi, Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993, Ichikawa, Kiichi, 1923-2006, Ōno, Tadashi, Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995, Kishida, Kyōko, 1930-2006
Format: Video DVD
Language:Japanese
Language Notes:In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2007
Series:Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 394.
Subjects:
Description
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.
Item Description:DVD release of the 1964 motion picture.
Story from the novel by Kobo Abe.
One of three films in the set: Pitfall, Woman in the dunes, The face of another: three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara.
Special features: video essay by critic James Quandt ; theatrical trailer.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital; mono.; NTSC.
Awards:Winner of the Special Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival; Academy Award nominee for Best Director & Best Foreign Film.
Production Credits:Cinematographer, Hiroshi Segawa ; art directors, Totetsu Hirakawa, Masao Yamazaki ; editor, Fusako Shuzui ; original music, Toru Takemitsu.
ISBN:1934121428 (disc)
9781934121429 (disc)
1934121673 (set)
9781934121672 (set)