Suna no onna AKA
Woman in the Dunes is the greatest makeout movie known to me.
1964 B/W Japanese art movie classic by director Hiroshi Teshigahara, from a novel and screenplay by Kobo Abe, with a super sound score by Toru Takemitsu. An amateur entomologist (callow young man) is searching for rare beetles in sand dune country in rural Japan. Weird villagers trick him, and he wakes up caught at the bottom of a giant antlion pit with a local lass who needs him to help shovel sand and improve her morale. He tries in vain to escape. Eventually he realizes he has nothing in Tokyo to go back for and
something going for him in the dunes. The
something is the best erotic scenes I recall in movies. It is not pornography, it is great art and far more stimulating. No body parts shown that you wouldn't see at the beach in 1964.
Woman in the Dunes is part of a three DVD Hiroshi Teshigahara collection that costs $50 at Amazon. If you just want it for a date, get it from Netflix. If you still have a VHS player, VHS tapes can be had for cheap on eBay and the Amazon Marketplace.
Bad language? Maybe if you know Japanese. Bad language rarely makes it into subtitles.
If this is too explicit, try
In the Mood for Love. Here's the blurb from Amazon:
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are polite and formal-until a discovery about their respective spouses sparks an intimate bond. At once delicately mannered and visually stunning, Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments in time.
The hero and heroine have something in common: both their spouses are overseas for career reasons, and both are cheating rats. Discovering their mutual secret by accident, they begin meeting after work for coffee and mutual support. They are honorable and inhibited and no good at asserting themselves, so they invent a little role playing game: one pretends to be the cheating spouse, and the other tries to be more self-assertive. They learn a lot about each other and fall hopelessly in love, but they're too honorable and inhibited to act on their feelings. You'll be kicking the sofa with your heels and mentally shouting "
Come on guys, do something! Even if it's just a quickie!
Really good and easier to rent.
