Woman in the Dunes

Hiroshi Teshigahara's collaboration with the novelist Kôbô Abe yielded a stunning, beautiful body of work centering around themes of alienation, modernity and identity. The most famous of these films is Woman in the Dunes, faithfully adapted from Abe's novel of the same name. As with all of Abe's work, both the novel and the film are infused with a spirit of deadpan surrealism, the character of