1. Hiroshi Teshigahara was a Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and artist from the Japanese New Wave era.
13 Facts About Hiroshi Teshigahara
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Hiroshi Teshigahara is best known for the 1964 film Woman in the Dunes.
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Hiroshi Teshigahara is known for directing other titles such as The Face of Another, Natsu no Heitai, and Pitfall, which was Teshigahara's directorial debut.
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Hiroshi Teshigahara has been called "one of the most acclaimed Japanese directors of all time".
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Apart from being a filmmaker, Hiroshi Teshigahara practiced other arts, such as calligraphy, pottery, painting, opera and ikebana.
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Hiroshi Teshigahara was born in Tokyo, the son of Sofu Hiroshi Teshigahara, founder and grand master of the Sogetsu-ryu school of ikebana.
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Hiroshi Teshigahara graduated in 1950 from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and began working in documentary film.
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Hiroshi Teshigahara directed his first feature film, Pitfall, in collaboration with author Kobo Abe and musician Toru Takemitsu.
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In 1980, after the death of his father, Hiroshi Teshigahara became the third generation Iemoto of Sogetsu School, using bamboo at his large-scale solo exhibitions at several well known museums, including the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea, Palazzo Reale in Milan, Italy, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, among other venues.
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In Japan, Teshigahara displayed his art installations nationwide, including Gen-Ichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art in Marugame and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Hiroshi Teshigahara has directed performances such as the opera Turandot, and original Noh play Susanoh, Sloka by Chandralekha Dance Company, and original outdoor dance play Susano Iden.
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In 1983, Hiroshi Teshigahara created a permanent installation at the Ken Domon Museum, Sakata, Japan.
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Hiroshi Teshigahara died at the age of 74 on April 14,2001, in his hometown, Tokyo, Japan.