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Woman in the Dunes

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IMDB ID: tt0058625

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A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Japanese

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Eiji Okada

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Kyôko Kishida

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Hiroko Itō

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Kōji Mitsui

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Hiroshi Teshigahara

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Kōbō Abe

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