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One of the sixties' great international art house sensations, Woman in the Dunes was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic worldview of director Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eiji Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left 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 (Kyoko Kishida) who lives in a hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema’s most bristling, unnerving, and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of everyday Sisyphean struggle, for which Teshigahara received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Description adapted from Janus Films. (Dir.: Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan, 1964, 147 min., 35mm, Japanese with English subtitles)
Film admission policy: Films are shown in the 300-seat Meyer Auditorium. Preregistration (up to four tickets per person per film) is encouraged but not required. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis for patrons without tickets.
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