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...might have guessed, tells the story of a woman and a man in a hole, in the dunes. And that was the thing that bothered me about this longish Japanese film: why was The Woman forced by her backward comrades to live alone in a huge hole in the sand by the seashore? Weekly, they lower her enough water and rations to survive in her ramshackle hut. When a young school teacher-amateur entomologist (bugs) happens along, they let him (Eiji Okada) down the rope ladder for her (Kyoko Kishida...
...aside from telling us The Woman must shovel sand which is sold as inferior and illegal building material, director Hiroshi Teshigahara gives little indication why The Woman must be kept in such degrading servitude. Why not live with integrity on the ground and shovel like a normal coolie laborer...
...Unknown in nature, these are similar to the innumerable "organic" (carbon-containing) compounds, but have the central chain of carbon atoms replaced by a silicon-oxygen chain. Common sand consists mainly of quartz, which is silicon dioxide...
WOMAN IN THE DUNES. Trapped in a hovel at the bottom of a sand pit, a man and woman find that their hellhole offers the only real freedom in this luminous, violent allegory by Japanese Director Hiroshi Teshigahara...
Julius Boros got the sort of backhanded compliment that caddies give big tippers: he was picked as the best man out of traps with a sand wedge. "If I hadn't practiced," said Boros modestly, "I couldn't possibly have won. There are many fine wedge players in the game, and none of them got there the easy...