In this film, frenzied "demon-killing" drums play as villagers in animal masks shine spotlights on two fighting lovers.
Early in this film, superposed images of a man's mistress watch him as he lies on his back in a beached boat and thinks about the ID cards of modern society. In this film, frenzied "demon-killing" drums play as villagers in animal masks shine spotlights on two fighting lovers. It uses extreme close-ups of faces and necks to display two characters' thirst as they are being deprived of water.  This winner of the 1964 Jury Prize at Cannes concludes with an official "Notification of Missing Persons," and opens with microscopic shots of crystals that zoom out to form rippling waves of (*) sand. It stars former Hiroshima, mon amour lead Eiji Okada and, similar to the director's films Pitfall, The Face of Another, and The Ruined Map, was scored by Toru Takemitsu. For 10 points, name this Hiroshi Teshigahara film adaptation of a novel about amateur entomologist Niki Junpei's travails in a pit of sand, written by Kobo Abe.
Early in this film, superposed images of a man's mistress watch him as he lies on his back in a beached boat and thinks about the ID cards of modern society.
Woman in the Dunes [or Suna no Onna]