TOKYO — Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara, best known overseas for his groundbreaking film “Women in the Dunes” and as the first Asian director nominated for an Academy Award, died Saturday of ...

Hiroshi Teshigahara (January 28, 1927 – April 14, 2001) was an avant-garde Japanese filmmaker. He was born in Tokyo, son of Sofu Teshigahara, founder and grand master of the Sogetsu School of ikebana.

Japanese master Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes) made this unguided 1984 tour of the Modernismo architect’s iconic Barcelona landmarks—those trippy, drippy structures that suggest ray-gun ...

Japan’s Hiroshi Teshigahara, who seemed on track for greatness after winning two Oscar nominations for “Woman in the Sands,” will be the subject of a San Sebastian Festival retrospective. Nominated ...

For an avant-garde art film that so fastidiously layers existentialist metaphors, Hiroshi Teshigahara's brilliant visual translation of Kobo Abe's novel was extremely well received upon its release in ...

Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara began his filmmaking career with a series of short documentaries, a few of which are included on Criterion's new four-disc Teshigahara box set. Two of those, ...

MoMI’s yearlong Science on Screen series opens February 13 with classic films Woman in the Dunes and The World, the Flesh, and the Devil presented in 35mm.