Born in Tokyo in 1927 and died in 2001, Hiroshi Teshigahara came from a family of ikebana flower-arranging masters and was a painter and documentary maker before directing. He worked with the novelist Kōbō Abe on a series of films, Pitfall, Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another and The Ruined Map. Woman in the Dunes (1964), with music by Tōru Takemitsu, was nominated for two Oscars. In his later career he returned to the family tradition and made ceramics and large bamboo installations.
Filmography
- Pitfall (1962)
- Woman in the Dunes (1964)
- The Face of Another (1966)
- The Ruined Map (1968)
- Rikyu (1989)