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Woman in the Dunes

Kyoko Kishida, who I recently watched starring opposite Ayako Wakao in Masumura's Manji, gives an erotically charged performance in Teshigahara's tour de force of visual style as an enigmatic woman living in a sandpit with an entomologist tricked into joining her. The physicality of their relationship is conveyed in an extraordinary way, with numerous close-up's of their sweaty, sand coated bodies...