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3 FILMS BY HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA
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Three works from perhaps the most avant-garde of the late sixties Japanese New   Wave directors. Teshigahara's debut, Pitfall (1962, 97 mins.), combines    a sociorealist critique of capitalism with a thorny murder mystery. An           itinerant miner (Hisashi Igawa), wandering the countryside with his young son, is hunted and brutally murdered by a mysterious assassin (Kuni Tanaka). The    killer coerces a witness to pin the crime on a union leader in hopes of        breaking a labor stronghold. As mistrust and killings spread, the ghosts of      the dead emerge. Teshigahara then rose to international prominence with        Woman in the Dunes (1964, 147 mins.), a symbolic and sensual adaptation  of Kobo Abe's novel about a photographer who gets trapped in a sand pit by a   mysterious woman condemned to shovel sand for all time. The director "builds     up the erotic tension...with extreme close-ups that transform the human body   into landscape" (Oxford Companion to Film). In The Face of Another (1966, 124 mins.), Teshigahara ascribes metaphysical dimensions to everyday    life. A businessman left faceless by an accident suffers agonies of exile a  nd  solitude until he acquires a lifelike mask through plastic surgery. This       allows him to lead a double life, but the mask ultimately consumes his real    identity. Metaphorically, the film confronts the chronic anxieties of          powerlessness and the uniquely Japanese terror of facelessness through nucl
ANTONIO GAUDI (CRITERION)
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Compelling portrait of Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926), the leading proponent of the Art Nouveau movement in architecture in Spain, whose distinctive style is marked by a fluidity of movement, rich color, and sensuality of form and texture. Teshigahara's camera examines buildings designed by Gaudi, including Casa Vicens, Crypt of the Colonia Guell and Park Guell, Casa Batlo, Casa Mila, and Barcelona's unfinished landmark, Templo de la Sagrada Familia. "A visual symphony" (The Chicago Tribune). In Japanese with English subtitles.       Hiroshi Teshigahara---Japan---1984---72 mins.
BASARA: PRINCESS GOH
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The last film from renowned Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman     in the Dunes). A sequel to his 1989 film, Rikyu, which followed the     martyrdom of a great tea ceremony master in 16th-century Japan, the lush,        studied Basara follows one of Rikyu's disciples as he ascends to the     position of his master. The new tea master invokes a series of rituals and     esthetics which forever alter Japan's concept of art and subtly express        revolutionary discontent. He soon inspires a princess to invoke her form of      discreet protest. In Japanese with English subtitles.                          Hiroshi Teshigahara---Japan---1992---142 mins.
PITFALL/ LE TRAQUENARD
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Hiroshi Teshigahara's debut film combines a sociorealist critique of             capitalism with a thorny murder mystery. An itinerant miner (Hisashi Igawa),     wandering the countryside with his young son, is hunted and brutally murdered    by a mysterious assassin dressed in white (Kuni Tanaka). The killer coerces a  witness to lie to the police and pin the crime on a union leader in hopes of   breaking a labor stronghold. As mistrust and more killings spread through the  impoverished community, the ghosts of the dead emerge to demand answers. A       meditation on human morality and the exploitative character of commerce,       Pitfall is a worthy predecessor to Teshigahara's masterpiece, Woman   in the Dunes. In Japanese with English subtitles.                           Hiroshi Teshigahara---Japan---1962---97 mins.
RIKYU
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Teshigahara presents a poignant film exploring the struggle between art and      power. Drinking tea was once a casual ritual around which social and             diplomatic relationships were practiced. In the 16th Century, Sen-no Rikyu       refined the art of the tea ceremony to aesthetic and spiritual heights. His    revolutionary ideas brought him to the forefront of Japanese politics when war lord Hideyoshi Toyotomi confided in him as Tea Master, and together they       sought what to each was most high: for Rikyu it was beauty, for Hideyoshi,       power. Thoughtful performances from Rentaro Mikune, Tsutomu Yamazaki and       Yoshiko Mita bring this historical allegory to its full, tragic power.         Hiroshi Teshigahara---Japan---1990---116 mins.