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An amateur entomologist has left Tokyo to collect rare beetles in an area of tall sand dunes. When he misses his return bus, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow in her house at the bottom of a dune. He finds himself trapped there with no choice but to assist the woman in an unending struggle to prevent shifting sand from burying her home. Their daily labors are punctuated by her determination to remain, by his dreams of escape, and by erotic battles of the sexes. Woman in the Dunes was one of the 1960s international art-house sensations. It is the product of collaboration between novelist Kobo Abe and director Hiroshi Teshigahara, who was nominated for an Academy Award. We will view a nicely-restored release in Japanese with English subtitles. John Stewart is a retired software developer with degrees in biology from the University of Michigan. He is not a movie maven, but he enjoys films and sharing them with Elderwise cinema lovers.
