"Woman in the Dunes": Teshigahara's 1964 Masterpiece, and Abe and Takemitsu's Too
How a collaboration of three masters made a timeless film
When I was growing up in Tokyo, my mother came home one afternoon raving about a strange Japanese movie she had just seen. Since she rarely went to movies and was indifferent to the ones she saw, her enthusiasm for an un-subtitled Japanese film got my attention.
“What’s it called?” I asked.
“Woman in the Dunes”*.
“What’s i…
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