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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.
DramaThrillerbased on novel or bookinsectsandart housewater shortagepsychological thrillerblack and whiteheld captiveskintrappedmissing personsexual torture
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Cast
- Eiji OkadaEntomologist Niki Jumpei
- Kyôko KishidaThe Woman
- Kōji MitsuiVillage Elder
- Hiroko ItōEntomologist's Wife
- Sen YanoVillager
- Hideo KanzeVillager
- Ginzô SekiguchiVillager
- Kiyohiko IchiharaVillager
- Hiroyuki NishimotoVillager
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- Hiroshi TeshigaharaDirector
- Kōbō AbeScreenplay
- Kōbō AbeNovel
- Hiroshi SegawaDirector of Photography
- Tōru TakemitsuOriginal Music Composer
- Fusako ShuzuiEditor
- Tadashi ÔnoProducer
- Kiichi IchikawaProducer
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