All were adapted by Mr. Abe from his novels or plays, and three of them—"Pitfall" (1962), "Woman in the Dunes" (1964) and "The Face of Another" (1966)—came to be regarded as pillars of the ...

Kobo Abe's masterpiece "The Woman in the Dunes" is one such book ... Abe also wrote the screenplay for the highly acclaimed 1964 movie of the same name, directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara.

starting at 7 p.m. “Woman in the Dunes” was directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and based on a novel of the same name by Kōbō Abe. The novel was published in 1962 and the film was released in 1964. The ...

Women in the Dunes, you might have guessed, tells the story of a woman and a man in a hole, in the dunes. And that was the thing that bothered me about this longish Japanese film: why was The ...

Woman in the Dunes displays a rare mastery of the power of cinema to refashion and strengthen the symbolism of ancient myths in a modern context. Abstraction, futility, hope and adaptability are ...