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Woman in the Dunes (1964)

Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara · 2h 27m · Thriller

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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