72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
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Retrospective - Hiroshi Teshigahara
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Hiroshi Teshigahara
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Retrospective
Retrospective
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
23 min.
Short film
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.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
49 min.
Medium-length film
Documentary on photography with the participation of twelve globally famous Japanese photographers.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
32 min.
Medium-length film
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.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara, Susumu Hani, Yoshiro Kawazu, Kyushiro Kusakabe, Sadamu Maruo, Zenzo Matsuyama, Kanzaburo Mushanokoji, Masahiro Ogi, Ryuichiro Sakisaka
Japan
24 min.
Short film
Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to immortalise Tokyo in 1957-58, including documentary, experimental and narrative footage on the society of the period.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
25 min.
Short film
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.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
97 min.
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.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
17 min.
Short film
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.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
147 min.
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.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
29 min.
Short film
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.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
58 min.
Medium-length film
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.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
122 min.
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.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
74 min.
Short film about motor racing.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
115 min.
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.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
107 min.
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.
(C)TM production
© (C)TM production
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
45 min.
Medium-length film
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.
(C)TM production
© (C)TM production
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
45 min.
Medium-length film
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.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
14 min.
Short film
Short film documenting the process of creating, preparing and constructing experimental mechanical sculptures by Swiss artist Jean Tinguely for his 1963 exhibition in Tokyo.
Sogetsu Foundation
© Sogetsu Foundation
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
72 min.
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.
©1989 Shochiku Co., Ltd.
© ©1989 Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
119 min.
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.
1992 Shochiku Co., Ltd./ SOGETSU FOUNDATION /TV-ASAHI
© 1992 Shochiku Co., Ltd./ SOGETSU FOUNDATION /TV-ASAHI
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan
142 min.
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.
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