Hiroshi Teshigahara

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1927-01-28 (74 years old)

Deathday

2001-04-14

Place of Birth

Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Biography

Hiroshi Teshigahara (January 28, 1927 – April 14, 2001) was an avant-garde Japanese filmmaker. He was born in Tokyo, 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 (1962), in collaboration with author Kōbō Abe and musician Tōru 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 professio...

Production

1966

1989

Rikyu

as Director

1989

Rikyu

as Writer

1984

Antonio Gaudí

as Director

1964

1955

12 Photographers

as Director

1968

1962

Pitfall

as Director

1953

Hokusai

as Director

1957

Ikebana

as Director

1958

Tokyo 1958

as Director

1964

Ako

as Director

1956

It Is Good to Live

as Co-Director

1972

Summer Soldiers

as Director

1967

Explosion Course

as Director

1959

Jose Torres

as Director

1965

Jose Torres II

as Director

1958

Living in a Rough Sea

as Cinematography

1984

Antonio Gaudí

as Executive Producer

1984

1970

1957

1964

That Tender Age

as Director

1953

Hokusai

as Associate Producer

1958

Tokyo 1958

as Screenplay

1958

Tokyo 1958

as Producer

1958

Tokyo 1958

as Editor

1959

Jose Torres

as Director of Photography

1972

Summer Soldiers

as Director of Photography

1959

Gaudi, Catalunya

as Director

1964

Ako

as Writer

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