Hiroshi Teshigahara

Best known in the West for the abstract and beautiful Woman of the Dunes (1964), Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara began his career in the film industry as a critic. The son of a noted painter, Teshigahara also studied painting. In the early '50s, he began making documentary shorts. He made his feature-film directorial debut in 1961 with The Pitfall/Kashi to Kodomo, a self-described "documentary fantasy." Woman of the Dunes earned Teshigahara two Oscar nominations and the Jury Prize at Cannes in 1964. He subsequently returned to more poetic, abstract fare such as Rikyu (1989), a meditation on the origins of the Japanese tea ceremony.

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	Jose Torres	Director	—	2011
No Score Yet	Music for the Movies: Toru Takemitsu	Interviewee	—	1994
No Score Yet	Rikyu	Director	—	1991
100%	Antonio Gaudí	Director	—	1986
No Score Yet	The Man Without a Map (Moetsukita chizu)	Director	—	1968
100%	The Face of Another (I Have a Stranger's Face) (Tanin no kao)	Producer Director	—	1967
No Score Yet	Ako (White Morning)	Director	—	1965
100%	Woman in the Dunes (Suna no Onna)	Director	—	1964
100%	Otoshiana (Pitfall)	Director	—	1962
No Score Yet	Hokusai	Director	—	1953

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