Asian Studies Program Presents
Japanese Film Screening: Woman in the Dunes
Friday, April 12, 2019
Olin Humanities, Room 102
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Woman in the Dunes7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Writer: Kôbô Abe (novel)
Release date: February 15, 1964
“An amateur entomologist has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in a vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema’s most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of everyday life as a Sisyphean struggle—an achievement that garnered Teshigahara an Academy Award nomination for best director.”
For more information, call 845-752-4289, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102