K V Subbanna Aptha Rangamandira and Film Study Circle

Invites you to a screening & discussion on

JAPANESE FILM

“WOMAN IN THE DUNES”

Direction: Hiroshi Teshigahara

Story: Kobo Abe

Writers: Eiko Yoshida, Kobo Abe

Actors: Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kshida, Hiro Ko Ito

Cinematography: Hiroshi Segawa

Editing: Fusako Shuzui

Music: Toru Takemitsu

Format: 35mm Black and White

Producers: Kichi Ichikawa, Tadeshi Oono

Release: 1964

Running Time: 123 mins

Language: Japanese (with Kannada subtitles)

Plot
An amateur entomologist escapes the hustle of the city by studying beetles in the remote sand dunes. After missing the last bus, he accepts villagers 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, he takes his anger on the woman-only to soon become her lover. He slowly accepts his predicament. The story explores philosophical allegory focusing upon the couple’s oppressive confinement and force of their physical attraction to each other.
The film won special jury prize at the Cannes Festival (1964), got Academy Awards as Best Foreign Film (1964) and Best Director (1965).
Venue: K V Subbanna aaptasamuha,
at 4 pm on Sunday, 22nd Sept 2013.
For Details Contact Gopinath.B.R Mob : 09964152999.