#392: TESHIGAHARA, Hiroshi: Three Films By Hiroshi Teshigahara (1962-66)

THREE FILMS BY HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA {Spine #392} OOP

TESHIGAHARA, Hiroshi (Japan)

Pitfall [1962]

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One of the most acclaimed Japanese directors of all time, Hiroshi Teshigahara distinguished himself in the sixties with a series of sinuous, atmospheric, and daring films. Teshigahara found his spiritual partner in novelist and screenwriter Kobo Abe, with whom he collaborated on these Kafkaesque portraits of identities in peril, films that captivated mainstream audiences while also touching the edges of the Japanese avant-garde. The existential ghost story Pitfall (Otoshiana), the shocking, erotic fable Woman in the Dune (Sunna no onna), and the sci-fi-tinged nightmare The Face of Another (Tanin no kao) are among cinema's enduring enigmas and rarest pleasures.

Pitfall (1962) {Spine #393}

Woman In The Dunes (1964) {Spine #394}

The Face Of Another (1966) {Spine #395}

The Supplements:

Teshigahara and Abe, video interviews with film programmer and professor Richard Peña, Japanese-film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, set designer Arata Isozaki, screenwriter John Nathan, and producer Noriko Nomura. Also included: four short films from the director’s early career: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako (1965).

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