The Role of the Environment in Onibaba and Woman In The Dunes.
Between the films Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo in 1964) and Woman In the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964) there are only five characters and two locations. Both films are striped down to a few essential elements. Without distractions we are made to examine each element more closely. A simple text or film can allow for a wider variety of interpretations. If the facets of a given film are not completely described and nailed down, if they are kept simple they allow us to interpret them in a way that a complex and fully rendered element might be less flexible.
