Hiroshi Teshigahara

Hiroshi Teshigahara ( Japanese 勅使河原宏 Teshigahara Hiroshi ; born January 28, 1927 in Chiyoda , Tokyo , Japan , † April 14, 2001 in Tokyo, Japan) was a Japanese film director .

Life

Hiroshi Teshigahara was born as the son of the famous Japanese painter and Ikebana artist Sofu Teshigahara and initially studied painting at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music . He worked in the film industry as a film critic before making his first documentaries in the early 1950s . His best-known work is the 1964 film The Woman in the Dunes , for which he received a nomination for best director at the Academy Awards and the Jury Prize at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival . Subsequently, he focused his work on psychological thrillers, but occasionally returned to his roots of the poetic and abstract genre . The latter includes the film Rikyu, the Tea Master from 1989, in which he staged the meditation of the traditional Japanese tea ceremony . Teshigahara's last work was Goh-hime from 1992. In 2001 he died of leukemia . He was married to Japanese actress Toshiko Kobayashi , with whom he had two children.