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Film Still Archive/Museum of Modern Art.
Eiji Okada and Kyoko Kishida in "Woman in the Dunes"
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As the Japanese suffered the world's hatred during the war, they earned its
sympathy with the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan. The old villains were now
victims. The glistening sand on the skin of the lovers in Hiroshi Teshigahara's
"Woman in the Dunes" is almost an artistic rendering of the nuclear dusting of
those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the American bombings.
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