Woman of the Dunes DVD Silent Cinema Haunted by his turbulent past

Haunted by his turbulent past

Violent and frenetic body horror films which use practical effects and in camera techniques imaginatively and effectively

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Woman of the Dunes DVD Silent Cinema Haunted by his turbulent past'Woman of the Dunes' Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara (1964) BFI DVD Staff Pick Japanese w English subtitles One of the 1960s great international art house sensations, Woman in the Dunes was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara and writer Kb Abe (Face of Another, Pitfall). When an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle in a vast desert misses his bus back to