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

One of many Sixties nice worldwide art-house sensations, Lady within the Dunes was for a lot of the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara (The Face of One other). Eiji Okada (Hiroshima mon amour) performs an newbie entomologist who has left Tokyo to check an unclassified species of beetle present in an enormous desert. When he misses his bus again to civilization, he’s persuaded to spend the night time with a younger widow (Kyoko Kishida) in her hut on the backside of a sand dune. What outcomes is one in all cinema s most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, in addition to a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean wrestle of on a regular basis life an achievement that garnered Teshigahara an Academy Award nomination for finest director.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
– New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
– Video essay on the movie from 2007 by movie scholar James Quandt
– 4 brief movies from director Hiroshi Teshigahara s early profession: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako (1965)
– Teshigahara and Abe, a 2007 documentary analyzing the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, that includes interviews with movie students Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, movie programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan
– Trailer
– PLUS: An essay by movie scholar Audie Bock and a 1980 interview with Teshigahara
Is Discontinued By Producer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA ranking ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.84 ounces
Merchandise mannequin quantity ‏ : ‎ 35644683
Director ‏ : ‎ Hiroshi Teshigahara
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 27 minutes
Launch date ‏ : ‎ August 23, 2016
Actors ‏ : ‎ Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion Assortment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01FRMOXA8
Nation of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Variety of discs ‏ : ‎ 1