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Kyôko Kishida
Eiji Okada
Koji Mitsui
Sen Yano
Kinzo Sekiguchi

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A naturalist professor, looking in the desert for insects, becomes imprisoned by a woman living in the valley of sand dunes.

09/18/2007 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

A More Formal "Eraserhead"

I really could have given this anywhere from a 7.5 to a 9.5 but looking back on it, there's really a lot of great stuff. It's just that the film begins to drag and I mean really fucking drag at some points. There's certain movies where half way through, despite loving it you get the feeling there's nothing much more film can offer. This is sort of how I felt. I mean, I did enjoy the rest of the film but not nearly on the same level. It gets sort of tedious after awhile, I suppose. The ending is really bad too. Teshigara's decision to show the main character's "missing persons" report is something you'd probably see in a Twilight Zone episode. It's almost like he's saying, "hey you know a missing person? Well, maybe they're enduring something like this?!" - just feels kinda gimmicky. Every...

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