It's not there but it might be someday / notes for an essay on Woman in the Dunes and Qian Xuesen's industrial sand theory
砂の女 ▣ This is a film by Teshigahara Hiroshi, from a screenplay by Abe Kobo. An entomologist (Okada Eiji), wandering in sand dunes in Shizuoka in search of rare insects, finds himself trapped by local villagers in a pit. He is imprisoned with a woman (Kishida Kyoko). The pair are expected to shovel sand to be sold by the villagers to a concrete company. …
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