Hiroshi Teshigahara

Hiroshi Teshigahara

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.

  • Title: Hiroshi Teshigahara
  • Popularity: 2.808
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1927-01-28
  • Place of Birth: Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Also Known As: 敕使河原宏, Хироси Тэсигахара
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Hiroshi Teshigahara Movies

  • 1966
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    The Face of Another

    The Face of Another

    7.785 1966 HD

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  • 1989
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    Rikyu

    Rikyu

    7.467 1989 HD

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  • 1989
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    Rikyu

    Rikyu

    7.467 1989 HD

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  • 1984
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    Antonio Gaudí

    Antonio Gaudí

    7.2 1984 HD

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  • 1964
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    Woman in the Dunes

    Woman in the Dunes

    8.207 1964 HD

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  • 1955
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    12 Photographers

    12 Photographers

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Man Without a Map

    The Man Without a Map

    6.5 1968 HD

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  • 1962
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    Pitfall

    Pitfall

    7.325 1962 HD

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  • 1953
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    Hokusai

    Hokusai

    6.3 1953 HD

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  • 1958
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    Tokyo 1958

    Tokyo 1958

    6.2 1958 HD

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  • 1957
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    Ikebana

    Ikebana

    6.4 1957 HD

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  • 1964
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    Ako

    Ako

    6.8 1964 HD

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  • 1992
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    Basara: The Princess Goh

    Basara: The Princess Goh

    6.8 1992 HD

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  • 1955
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    Wheat Will Never Fall

    Wheat Will Never Fall

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1957
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    The World Is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ash of Death”

    The World Is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ash of Death”

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1956
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    It Is Good to Live

    It Is Good to Live

    5 1956 HD

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  • 1972
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    Summer Soldiers

    Summer Soldiers

    6 1972 HD

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  • 1967
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    Explosion Course

    Explosion Course

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1959
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    Jose Torres

    Jose Torres

    8 1959 HD

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  • 1962
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    Sculptures by Sofu - Vita

    Sculptures by Sofu - Vita

    5.5 1962 HD

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  • 1965
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    Jose Torres II

    Jose Torres II

    6.5 1965 HD

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  • 1958
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    Living in a Rough Sea

    Living in a Rough Sea

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1984
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    Antonio Gaudí

    Antonio Gaudí

    7.2 1984 HD

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  • 1984
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    Antonio Gaudí

    Antonio Gaudí

    7.2 1984 HD

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  • 1970
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    240 Hours in One Day

    240 Hours in One Day

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1992
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    Basara: The Princess Goh

    Basara: The Princess Goh

    6.8 1992 HD

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  • 1956
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    Record of Bloodshed: Sunagawa

    Record of Bloodshed: Sunagawa

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1964
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    That Tender Age

    That Tender Age

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1953
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    Hokusai

    Hokusai

    6.3 1953 HD

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  • 1958
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    Tokyo 1958

    Tokyo 1958

    6.2 1958 HD

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  • 1958
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    Tokyo 1958

    Tokyo 1958

    6.2 1958 HD

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  • 1958
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    Tokyo 1958

    Tokyo 1958

    6.2 1958 HD

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  • 1959
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    Jose Torres

    Jose Torres

    8 1959 HD

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  • 1972
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    Summer Soldiers

    Summer Soldiers

    6 1972 HD

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  • 1981
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    Moving Sculpture: Jean Tinguely

    Moving Sculpture: Jean Tinguely

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1959
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    Gaudi, Catalunya

    Gaudi, Catalunya

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1964
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    Ako

    Ako

    6.8 1964 HD

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