Japanese film director and artist best known for the 1964 film Woman in the Dunes; frequent collaborator of writer Kōbō Abe and composer Tōru Takemitsu.

Born 1927, died 2001. Collaborated with writer Kōbō Abe and composer Tōru Takemitsu. Known for visually rigorous, existential films blending Zen and avant-garde influences.

Stronko's review of Donna Di Sabbia (Woman in the Dunes) praises the film's aesthetic rigor and existential themes. The review highlights sand as a central metaphor, Zen spirituality, Kafkaesque atmosphere, and the film's sparse, theatrical visuals. It notes collaboration with Kobo Abe and composer Toru Takemitsu and recommends the film to connoisseurs and seekers of spiritual cinema.

For:Fans of Japanese cinema, art-film enthusiasts, readers interested in existential and Zen-themed films.

 A film of impeccable beauty and aesthetic elegance, where every shot is painted like an ancient Japanese ideogram, in an existentialist black and white, a close cousin of the German expressionist school that suits well the essentiality of a story, as we said, animated by a Kafkaesque spirit, where characters find their redemption in the very tragedy of events, and where everything becomes relative and important at the same time in relation to the events themselves.

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