Kōbō Abe
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this famous postwar Japanese novel, the first of Abe's to be translated into English, Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist in pursuit of a rare specimen of beetle, wanders into a strange seaside village, whose residents all live in sandpits. He is taken prisoner, and, along with a widow cast out by the community, he is forced to move into her sandpit and continually shovel away the sand that threatens to take over the village. In Niki's struggles...
Series
Criterion collection volume 394
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (147 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm)
Language
日本語
Description
An amateur entomologist is left in Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in sandy locations. 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 the Sisyphean struggle of everyday life.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
An amateur biologist 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.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (147 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet 27 pages
Language
日本語
Description
An amateur entomologist is left in 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 the Sisyphean struggle of everyday life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 392-395
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (521 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (61 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
日本語
Description
Pitfall: When a miner leaves his employer and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inescapable destiny.
Woman in the dunes: An amateur entomologist leaves Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert....