Woman in the Dunes
1964 · 147 MIN · IMDB 8.4 · 23,937 VOTES · DIR. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 655 lines
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00:05:15 This is terrible.
00:09:05 What'll you do now?
00:12:55 Please.
00:15:44 No, about this big with hard shells.
00:18:57 ...the sand piles up a foot or two in one night.
00:22:06 Me? Why?
00:28:23 What a wreck!
00:37:09 Illegal confinement's a crime!
00:44:17 Joking? Broke my arm, maybe.
00:51:07 A coup d'etat?
00:53:28 What is it? Does it hurt?
01:00:07 ...think of some way to exploit the sand's appeal.
01:03:43 Don't!
01:17:49 Of course, it's not so much fun as Tokyo.
01:20:08 Isn't it so? Even you...
01:25:51 I must have sweated in bed.
01:28:36 Come on.
01:45:13 In Tokyo...
01:48:04 Who?
01:53:33 Everyone for himself.
01:56:12 I'm really so frightened...
02:06:23 Not a drop of rain for three weeks.
02:15:27 May be an abnormal pregnancy.
02:19:46 Pull her up!
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed655
Dialogue density4.5 lines / min
First line00:05:15
Final line02:19:46
Production Record
DirectorHiroshi Teshigahara
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes23,937