Suna no onna / Woman in the Dunes / Criterion Collection#394
«The most provocative picture ever made»
Country: Japan
Studio: Teshigahara Productions, Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd.
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Year of release: 1964
Duration:02:27:14
Production:The Criterion Collection#394
Translation:One-voice (voiceover) Oleg Vorotilin
Subtitles:English, Russian (Japanese collection, Skuf)
Premiere (world):02/15/1964
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Starring: Eiji Okada - Niki Junpei Kyoko Kishida - woman Hiroko Ito - Niki's wife Koji Mitsui Sen Yano Ginzo Sekiguchi Robert Dunham Kiyohiko Ichiha Hideo Kanze Hiroyuki Nishimoto
Description:A self-absorbed entomologist collects insects on the Japanese coast. Several locals meet him and offer him a place to stay for the night with a woman. They lead Nicky to a hut at the bottom of a sand pit, where he must climb down a rope ladder. And the next morning it turns out that the stairs have been removed.
Script: Kobo Abe, Eiko Yoshida
Producer: Kiichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Oono
Cinematographer: Hiroshi Segawa
Composer: Toru Takemitsu
Artist: Totetsu Hirakawa, Masao Yamazaki
Editing: Fusako Shuzui
Bonuses Disk 1-2
--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
Menu: English, static, voiced. Release type: DVD9 (Custom) + DVD9 Container: DVD-Video Video: NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR, 5543 Kbps, 23,976 (24000/1001) frames/sec Audio 1: Russian: AC3, 2 ch, 48.0 KHz, 192 Kbps / Single-voice (voiceover) Oleg Vorotilin Audio 2: Japanese: AC3, 1 ch, 48.0 KHz, 384 Kbps / Original Subtitle format: prerendered (DVD/IDX+SUB)