147 mins |
Rated
TBC
(Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964, 147 min) Eiji Okada stars as an amateur entomologist who, while studying beetles in a desert, is stranded and spends the night with a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. This leads to a gripping and erotically charged battle of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of life as a Sisyphean struggle, earning Teshigahara an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.
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(Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964, 147 min) Eiji Okada stars as an amateur entomologist who, while studying beetles in a desert, is stranded and spends the night with a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. This leads to a gripping and erotically charged battle of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of life as a Sisyphean struggle, earning Teshigahara an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.
