"Haunting. Erotic. Unforgettable."
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.
岡田英次
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
岸田今日子
The Woman
伊藤弘子
Entomologist's Wife
三井弘次
Village Elder
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.
- to me utterly & completely incomprehensable that this movie has been so neglected , Not included in - more 'popular' -watchlists ( or 'best movie' -lists ... ) - it is a Grand Feast for the eyes and the mind : the story , the acting , the photography is of such superb level !!! - i would hot hesitate to rate it ( - actually with many movie-'professionals' ... ) as among the top twenty best ( cinema-proper ) films ever made .
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 for this women (Kyôko Kishida) for if she doesn’t keep the sand levels down, they will swamp her home and swallow her up. The villagers assist in so far as they help dispose of the collected sand and they provide her - and now him - with some weekly rations, but she has no inclination to leave her pit and they seem content to watch him scratch about in the sand just as he was to look at creatures with more legs doing the same. Gradually a bond starts to build between the two, but he is always on the look out for a means of escape, and his captors know that - exacting some torrid vengeance upon both of them as a sort of sport after an attempted escape goes awry. In the end, he begins to realise that it’s distinctly possible that he, she or both may die in the hole and his options aren’t getting any better from day to day. It’s really quite a cerebrally gruesome film to watch this. To see two human beings toyed with as a cat would a mouse is a tough watch and both actors really do deliver strongly, imbuing their scenario with respective senses of acceptance and frustration. At times there are almost cruelly pagan elements to the behaviour on display here, but it is also just possible that there is a scintilla of goodness intended somewhere along the line, too? It’s tautly directed and the sparing but increasingly frenetic dialogue really helps to create a feeling that actually made me feel a little breathless at times. Maybe next time you walk along the beach, you’d best take an escape kit!
ซิน ซิตี้คือเมืองที่ไม่มีคนดีหน้าไหนกล้าเข้าไปเหยียบ หรือแม้แต่จะเฉียดกรายเข้าใกล้เพราะทุกตรอกซอกซอย ทุกหัวระแหงเต็มไปด้วยความรุนแรง มันคือสวรรค์ของอาชญากรดีๆ นี่เอง! แต่ในค่ำคืนหนึ่งชายหนุ่ม 3 คนกำลังจะพลิกชะตากรรมของเมืองด้วยสองมือของตัวเอง พวกเขากำลังเล่นเกมล่าอันตราย ที่วางเดิมพันไว้ด้วยชีวิต มหานครแห่งบาปกำลังถูกอาบให้ชุ่มโชกด้วยเลือด!!
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
เมื่อชายผู้สันโดษและเอาตัวรอดเก่งคนหนึ่งกับลูกสาวของเขาช่วยหญิงปริศนาที่ได้รับบาดเจ็บจากแม่น้ำ พวกเขากลับต้องเข้าไปพัวพันกับวังวนแห่งความรุนแรงและการแก้แค้นที่อันตรายถึงชีวิต บังคับให้พวกเขาต้องเผชิญหน้ากับอาชญากรโหดเหี้ยมเพื่อเอาชีวิตรอด
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