| Overview: | When teacher Junpei misses his last bus home after a day out collecting insects on a remote stretch of coast, he is invited by a local villager to take shelter in a young widow's ramshackle hut. Ignoring the fact that her home is at the bottom of a sandpit accessible only by rope ladder, he accepts this hospitality without realizing he is the victim of a cruel trick. Trapped, he is forced into an uneasy life with this woman, sharing with her the Sisyphean task of shoveling the sand that threatens to engulf them.
Out of this bizarre, if simple, situation, Hiroshi Teshigara builds an atmospheric, highly charged and remarkably sensual exploration of the human condition. Adapted by Kobo Abe from his own novel, and featuring a chilling, minimalist score by the great avant-garde composer Toru Takemitsu, "Woman Of The Dunes" won a Special Jury Prize at Cannes and was nominated for two Oscars.
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