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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="4"><br>Woman in the Dunes</font> <font size="2"> <br>DVD review by Gary Morris</font> <font size=3 face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"> <p><font size="6" color="#FF0000"><b>D</b></font><i>Woman in the Dunes</i> remains a masterful exercise in sensual terror; it’s particularly enticing in Milestone’s sharp, mostly artifact-free DVD transfer from the original negative. (No extras, though, except for the theatrical trailer.) Based on Kobo Abe's highly regarded novel, and adapted by the author for director Hiroshi Teshigahara, the story opens with amateur entomologist Jumpei Niki (hunky Eiji Tokada from <i>Hiroshima, Mon Amour</i>) puttering around some sand dunes looking for bugs. He's on what he thinks is a brief field trip, but the viewer's aware long before he is that there's something not quite right about this environment. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>