Empire of Silence
Renowned composer Toru Takemitsu brought his own brand of sonic fear to the soundtracks of many genre highlights from the Japanese New Wave.
Woman in the Dunes
The tale of an amateur entomologist (Eiji Okada) lured by seemingly amiable rural folk into a sand pit from which he is unable to escape, Woman in the Dunes would seem to generate its particular strain of terror from our primal fear of sequestration and austerity.