Hiroshi Teshigahara
Hiroshi Teshigahara was a Japanese avantgarde filmmaker. He is best known for his films Woman in the Dunes and The Face of Another.
Teshigahara was born in Tokyo, the 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 , in collaboration with author Kb Abe and musician Toru Takemitsu. The film won the NHK New Directors 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.
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