Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 147 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
- insect
- sand
- art house
- water shortage
- psychological thriller
- black and white
- held captive
- skin
- trapped
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Eiji Okada
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Kyôko Kishida
The Woman
Hiroko Itō
Entomologist's Wife
Kōji Mitsui
Village Elder
- Directed
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Written
- Kōbō Abe
Production
- Studio
- Teshigahara Productions, TOHO
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
