Woman in the dunes
[Stati Uniti] : The Criterion Collection, 2016
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One of the 1960s’ great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eiji Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in a vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one ...; [leggi tutto]
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| Descrizione | Woman in the dunes / by Hiroshi Teshigahara ; the screenplay for the film was adapted by Kōbō Abe from his 1962 novel. - ed. USA. - [Stati Uniti] : The Criterion Collection, 2016. - 2 DVD-Video : b/n , sonoro ; in contenitore, 12 cm + booklet. - (The Criterion Collection ; 394) |
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Interpreti: Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida. - Il cofanetto contiene: DISC 1: The movie "Woman in the dunes" ; Chapters ; Video essay ; Trailer and Subtitles. DISC 2: Teshigahara and Abe ; Short films: Hokusai, Ikebana, Tokio 1958, Ako and subtitles. - Contenuti speciali: New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; Video essay on the film from 2007 by film scholar James Quandt ; Four short films from director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s early career: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako (1965) ; Teshigahara and Abe, a 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring interviews with film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, film programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan ; Trailer. PLUS: An essay by film scholar Audie Bock and a 1978 interview with Teshigahara
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by James Quandt, Howard Hampton, Audie Bock, and Peter Grilli and Max Tessier’s 1964 interview with Teshigahara. - For the novel this film was adapted from, see The Woman in the Dunes. Not to be confused with Lady of the Dunes. |
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| ID scheda | 124671 |