Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara : the supplements /

"Teshigahara and Abe" is about the collaboration between director Hiroshi Teshigahara and author/screenwriter Kōbō Abe, which includes exclusive video interviews with film programmer and professor Richard Peña, Japanese-film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, set designer Arata Isozaki...

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Corporate Authors: Janus Films, Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Sogetsu Foundation (Firm), Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Teshigahara, Hiroshi
Format: Video DVD
Language:Japanese
English
Language Notes:In Japanese and English with optional English subtitles.
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2007.
Series:Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs)
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Summary:"Teshigahara and Abe" is about the collaboration between director Hiroshi Teshigahara and author/screenwriter Kōbō Abe, which includes exclusive video interviews with film programmer and professor Richard Peña, Japanese-film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, set designer Arata Isozaki, screenwriter John Nathan, and producer Noriko Nomura ; "Hokusai" explores the work of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai ; "Ikebana" is a documentary about the Sogetsu School, originally renowned for its instruction in the art of flower arranging, and its founder and grand master, his father, Sofu Teshigahara ; "Tokyo 1958" is a portrait of the people and culture ; "Ako,", a film depicting one night in the life of a young girl and her rowdy friends, was commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada.
Item Description:This is the special features disc from the set: Pitfall, Woman in the dunes, The face of another: three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara set.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (152 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; region 1; widescreen (16:9 enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital; mono.; NTSC.
Audience:Not rated.
ISBN:1934121444 (disc)
9781934121443 (disc)
1934121673 (set)
9781934121672 (set)