Hiroshi Teshigahara

Hiroshi Teshigahara (Japanese敕使 河 原 宏Teshigahara Hiroshi, born January 28, 1927 in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, † April 14, 2001 in Tokyo, Japan ) was a Japanese film director.

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