Jose Torres. 1959. Japan. Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. Composed by Toru Takemitsu. 35mm. In Japanese; without English subtitles. 15 min.
Courtesy Sogetsu.
Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes). 1964. Japan. Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. Screenplay by Kōbō Abe, based on his novel. Composed by Toru Takemitsu. With Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Hiroko Idô. 35mm. In Japanese; English subtitles. 147 min.
Toru Takemitsu composed one of his most haunting scores, “[raising] goosebumps with Xenakis-like string glissandos and electronic noise” (Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise), for this legendary collaboration with the Japanese author Kōbō Abe and filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara.