Hiroshi Teshigahara

  • Hiroshi Teshigahara – Otoshiana AKA Pitfall (1962)

    1961-1970AsianCrimeHiroshi TeshigaharaJapan

    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) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inescapable destiny. Hiroshi Teshigahara’s debut feature and first collaboration with novelist Kobo Abe, Pitfall is many things: a mysterious, unsettling ghost story, a portrait of human alienation, and a compellingly surreal critique of soulless industry, shot in elegant black and white.Read More »

  • Charlotte Zwerin – Music for the Movies: Toru Takemitsu (1994)

    USA1991-2000Charlotte ZwerinDocumentary

    Documentary about Toru Takemitsu, composer of the extraordinary scores for such films as Kwaidan, Woman In the Dunes, Ran, and many others. Illustrated with scenes from these films and others, and with interviews with Takemitsu and various directors. Includes studio recording sessions. In English and Japanese, with burnt in English subtitles.Read More »

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