Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara • 1962 • Japan
Starring Hisashi Igawa, Kunie Tanaka, Hideo Kanze
When a miner leaves his employers and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inescapable destiny. Hiroshi Teshigahara’s debut feature and first collaboration with novelist Kobo Abe, PITFALL is many things: a mysterious, unsettling ghost story, a portrait of human alienation, and a compellingly surreal critique of soulless industry, shot in elegant black and white.
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Sculptures by Sofu—Vita
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara • 1963 • Japan
The following is a short film that Hiroshi Teshigahara made in 1963. It documents the installation of a sculpture exhibition at the Sogetsu Institute by his father, Sofu Teshigahara.
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Ako
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara • 1964 • Japan
Depicting one night in the life of a young girl and her rowdy friends, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s AKO—also known as WHITE MORNING—was part of an omnibus film titled LA FLEUR DE L’ÂGE OU LES ADOLESCENTES, commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada.
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Woman in the Dunes
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara • 1964 • Japan
Starring Eiji Okada, Kyoko KishidaOne of the 1960s’ great international art-house sensations, WOMAN IN THE DUNES (SUNA NO ONNA) was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eiji Okada plays an amateur...
