Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

3 Episodes

One of the most acclaimed Japanese directors of all time, Hiroshi Teshigahara distinguished himself in the sixties with a series of sinuous, atmospheric, and daring films. Teshigahara found his spiritual partner in novelist and screenwriter Kobo Abe, with whom he collaborated on these Kafkaesque portraits of identities in peril, films that captivated mainstream audiences while also touching the edges of the Japanese avant-garde. The existential ghost story PITFALL (Otoshiana), the shocking, erotic fable WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Sunna no onna), and the sci-fi–tinged nightmare THE FACE OF ANOTHER (Tanin no kao) are among cinema’s enduring enigmas and rarest pleasures.

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Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

3 Episodes

  • Pitfall
    1:37:06
    Pitfall
    Episode 1

    Pitfall

    Episode 1

    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) ...

  • Woman in the Dunes
    2:27:17
    Woman in the Dunes
    Episode 2

    Woman in the Dunes

    Episode 2

    Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara • 1964 • Japan
    Starring Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida

    One 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...

  • The Face of Another
    2:01:59
    The Face of Another
    Episode 3

    The Face of Another

    Episode 3

    Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara • 1966 • Japan
    Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Machiko Kyo, Mikijiro Hira

    A staggering work of existential science fiction, THE FACE OF ANOTHER dissects identity with the sure hand of a surgeon. Okuyama (YOJIMBO’s Tatsuya Nakadai), after being burned and disfigured in a...

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