Item Details
Suna no onna [videorecording] : Woman in the dunes
Janus Films ; Toho ; Sogetsu Foundation ; Teshigahara Productions ; a film by Hiroshi Teshigahara ; producers, Kiichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Ono ; director, Hiroshi Teshigahara.
- Format
- DVD; Video
- Summary
- An amateur entomologist leaves 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 who lives in a hut at the bottom of a sand dune.
- Director
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Performer(s)
- Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida.
- Release Date
- 1964
- Run Time
- 148 min.
- Language
- In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
- Notes
- Videodisc release of the 1964 motion picture.
- Story from the novel by Kobo Abe.
- One of three films in the set: Pitfall, Woman in the dunes, The face of another: three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara.
- Special features: video essay by critic James Quandt ; theatrical trailer.
- Edition statement from set box.
- Variant title
- Woman in the dunes
- Title on set container:
- Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Awards note
- Winner of the Special Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival; Academy Award nominee for Best Director & Best Foreign Film.
- Local Notes
- Separate booklet available as part of set box shelved with individual title "The supplements" under call number video .DVD08828.
- Edition
- Special ed.; full screen.
- Series
- Criterion collection
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs)
- Series statement
- Criterion collection ; 394
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 394.
- ISBN(s)
- 1934121428 (disc), 9781934121429 (disc), 1934121673 (set box), 9781934121672 (set box),
- Credits
- Cinematographer, Hiroshi Segawa ; art directors, Totetsu Hirakawa, Masao Yamazaki ; editor, Fusako Shuzui ; original music, Toru Takemitsu.
- Published
- [Irvington, N.Y.] :Criterion Collection,c2007.
- Publisher no.
- CC1702D Criterion Collection (disc)
- CC1700D Criterion Collection (set box)
- Related resources
- Internet Movie Database Summary and Reviews
- Description
- 1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. DVD ; region 1 ; full screen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital mono., NTSC.
- Technical details
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