Japan,
1964, 123 min
(Director's cut: 147 min)
Plots(1)
Hiroshi Teshigahara's powerful masterpiece follows an amateur biologist who escapes the bustle of the city by studying beetles in remote sand dunes. After missing the last bus, he accepts a villager's offer to spend the night in a widow's shack at the bottom of a deep sand pit. In the morning he finds he is trapped. At first enraged, the man's hatred for the woman soon turns to searing, erotic lust. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 1966 - Hiroshi Teshigahara (Best Achievement in Directing)
- 1965 - Hiroshi Teshigahara (Best Foreign Language Film)
Cannes Film Festival
- 1964 - Hiroshi Teshigahara (Special Jury Prize)
- 1964 - Hiroshi Teshigahara (Grand Prize)