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 ...

In this beautifully photographed 1964 film by legendary Japanese director ... local villagers to be a companion to the titular woman in the dunes. The plot is Sisyphean in nature: The protagonist ...

Woman Of The Dunes is a bizarre yet compelling mid-60s thriller from the late Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara. Echoing the menacing absurdity of Roman Polanski's Knife In The Water and Cul ...

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is ...

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.

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 ...

Woman in the Dunes is part of a series of Classic Cinema From Around the World being presented at 8 p.m. Friday, August 3, at Courtyard Gallery, 9 Walnut St. in downtown Asheville. Info ...