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Woman in the Dunes(1964)

8.2(519)

2h 27m

1964-02-15

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.

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based on novel or bookinsectsandart housewater shortagepsychological thrillerblack and whiteheld captiveskintrappedmissing personsexual torturesand duneerotic photographywater pumpjapanese new waveslave laborentomologistescape attemptsand pitforced labortextureavant gardedisappearedbarbaric behavior

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