is a 1964 Japanese New Wave avant-garde arthouse psychological thriller film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and starring Eiji Okada, Kyōko Kishida, and Kōji Mitsui. It received widespread critical acclaim and was nominated for two Academy Awards. The screenplay for the film was adapted by Kōbō Abe from his 1962 novel of the same name. The film follows an amateur entomologist (Okada) who is led to settle in the house of a lonely widow (Kishida) at the bottom of a sand dune in a rural coastal village. He soon realizes that the villagers have trapped him there and expect him to work for them.

Plot

Schoolteacher and amateur entomologist Niki Junpei leaves Tokyo for a rural coastal village to collect tiger beetles and other insects. He is self-absorbed, dissatisfied with his life in Tokyo, and rude to his hosts.