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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 246,518 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hiroshi Teshigahara is the 465th most popular film director (up from 491st in 2019), the 678th most popular biography from Japan (up from 728th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Hiroshi Teshigahara ranks 465 out of 1,581Before him are Susanne Bier, Louis Feuillade, Nadine Trintignant, Veljko Bulajić, Fernando Solanas, and André Téchiné. After him are Paul W. S. Anderson, Roland Joffé, Umberto Lenzi, Jacques Deray, Nicolas Roeg, and John Lasseter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Hiroshi Teshigahara ranks 130Before him are Carlos José Castilho, Laura Betti, Hans Schäfer, Coretta Scott King, Bernard Vukas, and Vladimir Ilyushin. After him are Al Martino, Patti Page, Paul Volcker, Gae Aulenti, Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, and Neil Simon. Among people deceased in 2001, Hiroshi Teshigahara ranks 90Before him are Renato Carosone, Michel Marcel Navratil, Indro Montanelli, Juan Bosch, Richard Wurmbrand, and Bill Hewlett. After him are Alexei Tupolev, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Mauro Bolognini, Mortimer J. Adler, and Kristina Söderbaum.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroshi Teshigahara ranks 678 out of 6,048Before him are Inoue Kaoru (1836), Shigeko Higashikuni (1925), Yuki Fushimi (1950), Soga no Umako (551), Ii Naosuke (1815), and Yasuo Haruyama (1906). After him are Kazu Naoki (1918), Ueda Akinari (1734), Motobu Chōki (1870), Yoshitaka Amano (1952), Hōnen (1133), and Nagakura Shinpachi (1839).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Hiroshi Teshigahara ranks 24Before him are Kaneto Shindo (1912), Hirokazu Kore-eda (1962), Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Kon Ichikawa (1915), Yoshiyuki Tomino (1941), and Takashi Miike (1960). After him are Seijun Suzuki (1923), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), Mamoru Hosoda (1967), Yoji Yamada (1931), Osamu Dezaki (1943), and Juzo Itami (1933).

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