Top Billed Cast
Eiji Okada
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Kyôko Kishida
The Woman
Hiroko Itō
Entomologist's Wife
Kōji Mitsui
Village Elder
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Review 1DiscussionA review by CinemaSerf
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Written by CinemaSerf on Thu Feb 06 2025
Yikes, but for a film almost entirely set outdoors it’s remarkably claustrophobic! It’s about the exploring bug hunter “Jumpei” (Eiji Okada) who finds himself a bit lost out in the sand dunes after he misses the last bus of the day. A friendly villager offers him some shelter for the night, buy boy is he ill-prepared for quite what that man, and his entire village, has in store. He is placed with a widow, but when he wakes in the morning discovers that her home is deep within a sand well and the only way out is the ladder he climbed down to enter - and that’s gone! It’s a precarious existence f...
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Facts
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
- based on novel or book
- insect
- sand
- art house
- water shortage
- psychological thriller
- black and white
- held captive
- skin
- trapped
- missing person
- sexual torture
- sand dune
- erotic photography
- water pump
- japanese new wave
- slave labor
- entomologist
- escape attempt
- sand pit
- forced labor
- texture
- avant garde
- disappeared
- barbaric behavior