The director made his debut with this short documentary on the life and work of Karsushika Hokusai, master of ukiyo-e (engravings described as painting of the floating world) during the Edo Period and author of famous pieces such as the The Great Wave of Kanagawa.

Documentary on photography with the participation of twelve globally famous Japanese photographers.

Documentary in short format explaining the history and art of ikebana, the art of flower arrangement, highlighting its combination with other materials such as steel, wood, stone or vegetales. It also looks at the work of the director's father, Sofu Teshigahara, grand master of the genre's most important contemporary school. 

Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to immortalise Tokyo in 1957-58, including documentary, experimental and narrative footage on the society of the period.

Documentary filmed in New York about the Puerto Rican boxer Jose Torres, who had won a silver medal at the Melbourne Olympic Games only three years earlier. It had a follow-up in 1965, Jose Torres II. 

A man wanders with his young son as he looks for work in the mining area of Kitakyusu, the scene of several crimes. The murder victims become lost souls who help to tell the story. He comes to a ghost town whose only inhabitant is a woman who runs a small shop. Teshigahara's debut movie and first collaboration with the writer Kobo Abe. 

Once again the director uses his camera to immortalise the creative processes of his father, Sofu Teshigahara, now as a sculptor, while he prepares the pieces for a major exhibition. 

An entomologist searching for insects in sand dunes is trapped in a house at the bottom of a deep hole where he is forced to live with a woman with whom he strikes up a tense relationship. The film earned the moviemaker international prestige and was his greatest collaboration with Kobo Abe.

Episode of the anthology film, La fleur de l’âge / Les adolescents, in which four moviemakers render the same number of portraits of young people. The short film shows a day in the life of Ako, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, at home, at the bakery where she works and having fun with her friends at the bowling alley, the amusement park or in a car. 

The second instalment of the extensive documentary dedicated to the boxer José Torres focuses on relations with his mother and his fiancée and on his preparation and training for the fight against the North American Willie Pastrano in the dispute for the title of world heavyweight champion in 1965.

Convinced that the soul lives in the skin, that his identity has disappeared with the features of his face, disfigured in an accident, a scientist becomes obsessed with the idea of using a mask with the face of another person that he hopes will help him to connect with the world. 

Short film about motor racing.

A private detective is hired by one of his agency's clients to find her missing husband. As the investigation becomes increasingly confused, the detective's life starts to lose all meaning. 

In this film, written by the North American screenwriter John Nathan, the moviemaker addresses the story of a US soldier who deserts during the Vietnam War while on leave in Japan. There he will meet other desertors and politicians who want to use him for their own interests.

First of the two episodes made by Teshigahara for the popular TV series featuring Zato-Ichi, the blind masseur, starring Shintaro Katsu. A travelling tale following Zato-Ichi and his adventures on the road and in cities.

Second episode of the TV series featuring Zato-Ichi directed by Teshigahara. The last one in the series, it follows the outline of the previous episode, showing the character on his travels as he seeks redemption.

Short film documenting the process of creating, preparing and constructing experimental mechanical sculptures by Swiss artist Jean Tinguely for his 1963 exhibition in Tokyo.

His best known documentary work, focused on the Catalan modernist architect Antoni Gaudí. The film, which has the participation of the architect Isidre Puig i Boada, would be key for the interest and admiration still enjoyed by the oeuvre of the creator of the Sagrada Familia in Japan.

In the Monoyama Period (16th century), Rikyu is the tea master and right-hand man of the vain daimyo obsessed with extending the Japanese empire by invading China and Korea. Rikyu disagrees with his warmongering lord's pretensions. 

The second film about the turbulent period now focuses on the master potter Furuta Oribe, a disciple of Rikyu whom, like the latter, was obliged to take his life using the seppuku rite, and the young and spirited Princes Goh, married to an exiled lord.