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Hiroshi Teshigahara

Directing

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Hiroshi Teshigahara is a director born on January 28, 1927 in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. He died on April 14, 2001, aged 74. He is known for Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another and Pitfall. GloboWatch shows where to watch one of his movies and TV shows, country by country.

Known for
Directing
Born
January 28, 1927
Place of birth
Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Died
April 14, 2001
Also known as
Хироси Тэсигахара

Biography

Hiroshi Teshigahara (January 28, 1927 – April 14, 2001) was an avant-garde Japanese filmmaker. He was born in Tokyo, son of Sofu Teshigahara, founder and grand master of the Sogetsu School of ikebana. He graduated in 1950 from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and began working in documentary film. He directed his first feature film, Pitfall (1962), in collaboration with author Kōbō Abe and musician Tōru Takemitsu. The film won the NHK New Director's award, and throughout the 1960s, he continued to collaborate on films with Abe and Takemitsu while simultaneously pursuing his interest in ikebana and sculpture on a professional level. In 1965, the Teshigahara/Abe film Woman in the Dunes (1964) was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1972, he worked with Japanese researcher and translator John Nathan to make the movie Summer Soldiers, a film set during the Vietnam War about American deserters living on the fringe of Japanese society. From the mid-1970s onwards, he worked less frequently on feature films as he concentrated more on documentaries, exhibitions and the Sogetsu School and became grand master of the school in 1980. In 1978, Teshigahara Hiroshi directed the final two episodes of the long running and popular Japanese television series Shin Zatouichi, starring Shintarō Katsu as the blind wandering Yakuza. During Akira Kurosawa's 5 year hiatus from filmmaking, he watched a lot of television and was particularly taken by the final episode of Shin Zatouichi - Episode: Journey of Dreams (1978). The influence of this particular episode included the initial casting of Shintaro Katsu in the lead roles in Kagemusha and the extended artistic dream sequences contributed to those seen in Kagemusha (1980). On the first anniversary of his death, April 14, 2002, a DVD box set containing his best known work was released in Japan in commemoration.

Filmography

  1. 1992Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden
  2. 1992Basara: The Princess GohDirector · Writer
  3. 1989RikyuDirector · Writer
  4. 1985Basara no Hana (Flowers of Extravagance)Director
  5. 1984Antonio GaudíDirector · Editor · Executive producer
  6. 1981Moving Sculpture: Jean TinguelyDirector
  7. 1974Zatoichi MonogatariDirector · Writer
  8. 1972Summer SoldiersDirector · Cinematography
  9. 1970240 Hours in One DayDirector
  10. 1968The Man Without a MapDirector
  11. 1967Explosion CourseDirector
  12. 1966The Face of AnotherDirector
  13. 1965Jose Torres IIDirector
  14. 1964AkoDirector · Writer
  15. 1964That Tender AgeDirector
  16. 1964Woman in the DunesDirector
  17. 1962PitfallDirector
  18. 1962Sculptures by Sofu - VitaDirector
  19. 1959Jose TorresDirector · Cinematography
  20. 1959Drumu To ShonenDirector
  21. 1959Gaudi, CatalunyaDirector
  22. 1958Yurakucho 0 Streetas Ryoji (Poet) · Screenplay
  23. 1958Tokyo 1958Director · Screenplay · Editor · Producer
  24. 1957IkebanaDirector
  25. 1955Wheat Will Never FallEditor
  26. 195512 PhotographersDirector
  27. 1953HokusaiDirector