FILM DIRECTOR

Hiroshi Teshigahara

1927 - 2001

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Hiroshi Teshigahara (勅使河原 宏, Teshigahara Hiroshi, January 28, 1927 – April 14, 2001) was a Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and artist from the Japanese New Wave era. He is best known for the 1964 film Woman in the Dunes. He is also known for directing other titles such as The Face of Another (1966), Natsu No Heitai (Summer Soldiers, 1972), and Pitfall (1962) which was Teshigahara's directorial debut. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiroshi Teshigahara has received more than 255,461 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hiroshi Teshigahara is the 462nd most popular film director (up from 464th in 2019), the 702nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 676th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Hiroshi Teshigahara ranks 462 out of 2,041. Before him are Jacques Deray, Delbert Mann, Glauber Rocha, Lung Chien, John Lasseter, and Yoshiyuki Tomino. After him are Nadine Trintignant, Tom Holland, Patricio Guzmán, Mauro Bolognini, André Cayatte, and Mauritz Stiller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Hiroshi Teshigahara ranks 132. Before him are Al Martino, Josy Barthel, Ken Russell, Mirtha Legrand, Bernard Vukas, and Roy Chiao. After him are Ahmad Jannati, Joe Turkel, Vladimir Ilyushin, Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Gordon Cooper, and L. K. Advani. Among people deceased in 2001, Hiroshi Teshigahara ranks 89. Before him are Jason Miller, William P. Rogers, Tamara Smirnova, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Indro Montanelli, and Margaret Scriven. After him are Mauro Bolognini, Kristina Söderbaum, Mortimer J. Adler, Renato Carosone, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, and Alexey Maresyev.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroshi Teshigahara ranks 702 out of 6,245. Before him are Naoko Takeuchi (1967), Shō Shin (1465), Takako Shimazu (1939), Yoshiyuki Tomino (1941), Keisai Eisen (1790), and Prince Morikuni (1301). After him are Yoshinobu Ishii (1939), Setsu Sawagata (null), Norio Yoshimizu (1946), Ueda Akinari (1734), Ashikaga Yoshihisa (1465), and Shinichi Suzuki (1898).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Hiroshi Teshigahara ranks 23. Before him are Kinji Fukasaku (1930), Ishirō Honda (1911), Kaneto Shindo (1912), Kon Ichikawa (1915), Takashi Miike (1960), and Yoshiyuki Tomino (1941). After him are Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), Seijun Suzuki (1923), Gorō Miyazaki (1967), Osamu Dezaki (1943), and Rintaro (1941).

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Filmography

Woman in the Dunes
Director
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
Feb 15o 19648.206 / 10
The Face of Another
Director
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Jul 15o 19667.8 / 10
Pitfall
Director
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
Jul 1o 19627.3 / 10