Michael and Us: I Don't Like Sand

A man spends a night in an isolated woman's desert shack, and loses his identity in the process, in WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964), Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kōbō Abe's resonant parable about... what, exactly? Your hosts are not entirely sure, but forge ahead anyway with this seminal work of postwar Japanese cinema.

Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.