Woman in the Dunes (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] / 砂の女

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勅使河原 宏監督
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監督：勅使河原 宏
英題：Women in the Dunes
公開年：1964
製作国：Japan
上映時間： 147 minutes

Woman in the Dunes
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 of cinema’s most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of everyday life as a Sisyphean struggle—an achievement that garnered Teshigahara an Academy Award nomination for best director.

SPECIAL FEATURES
・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