Haunting. Erotic. Unforgettable.
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.
- 8.2
- 1964
- Released
- 2h 27m
Eiji Okada
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Kyôko Kishida
The Woman
Hiroko Itō
Entomologist's Wife
Kōji Mitsui
Village Elder
Released
ja
- #based on novel or book
- #insect
- #sand
- #art house
- #water shortage
- #psychological thriller
- #black and white
- #held captive
- #skin
- #trapped
- #missing person
- #sexual torture
- #sand dune
- #erotic photography
- #water pump
- #japanese new wave
- #slave labor
- #entomologist
- #escape attempt
- #sand pit
- #forced labor
- #texture
- #avant garde
- #disappeared
- #barbaric behavior
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Yikes, but for a film almost entirely set outdoors it’s remarkably claustrophobic! It’s about the exploring bug hunter “Jumpei” (Eiji Okada) who finds himself a bit lost out in the sand dunes after he misses the last bus of the day. A friendly villager offers him some shelter for the night, buy boy is he ill-prepared for quite what that man, and his entire village, has in store. He is placed with
- to me utterly & completely incomprehensable that this movie has been so neglected , Not included in - more 'popular' -watchlists ( or 'best movie' -lists ... ) - it is a Grand Feast for the eyes and the mind : the story , the acting , the photography is of such superb level !!! - i would hot hesitate to rate it ( - actually with many movie-'professionals' ... ) as among the top twenty