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Hiroshi Teshigahara

was an avant-garde Japanese filmmaker.

He was born in Tokyo, son of Sofu Teshigahara, founder and grand master of the the Sogetsu School of ikebana. He graduated in 1950 from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and directed his first film, Pitfall (1962), in collaboration with author K?b? Abe and musician T?ru 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.^[1] 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.

On the first anniversary of his death, April 14, 2002, a DVD box set containing his most famous works was released in Japan to commemorate his work.

Filmography

Complete filmography of Hiroshi Teshigahara include^[2]^[3]^[4]:

Hokusai (??) (1953)
12 Photographers (???????) (1955)
Ikebana (????) (1956) or ???????????? (1957) - director and screenplay
?????? (1958) - screenplay
Tokyo1958 (??1958) (1958)
??????? (1958) - art
José Torres (???????) (1959) - director and shooting
Pitfall (????) (1962) - director
Woman in the Dunes (???) (1964) - director
White Morning (???) (1965)
Jose Torres Part II (??????? Part II) (1965)
The Face of Another (???? Tanin no Kao) (1966) - director
Bakusou (??) (1966)
?????????? (1967) - producer
The Man Without a Map (??????? Moetsukita Chizu) aka The Ruined Map (???????) (1968) - director
240 Hours in One Day (1?240??) (1970)
Summer Soldiers (?????????) (1972) - director, planning and shooting
Warera no Shuyaku (??????) (1977) - TV film
Shin Zatouichi - Episode: Journey of Rainbows (?????????) (1978) - TV film
Shin Zatouichi - Episode: Journey of Dreams (?????????) (1978) - TV film
Sculpture Mouvante - Jean Tinguely (???? ??????????) (1981)
Antonio Gaudí (???????????) (1984) - director, producer and editing
Rikyu (??) (1989) - director, producer and screeplay
Princess Goh (??) (1992) aka Basara - The Princess Goh - director, producer and screenplay