Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara (1962-1966) [The Criterion Collection #392] [Re-UP]

One of the most acclaimed Japanese directors of all time, Hiroshi Teshigahara distinguished himself in the sixties with a series of sinuous, atmospheric, and daring films. Teshigahara found his spiritual partner in novelist and screenwriter Kobo Abe, with whom he collaborated on these Kafkaesque portraits of identities in peril, films that captivated mainstream audiences while also touching the edges of the Japanese avant-garde. The existential ghost story Pitfall (Otoshiana), the shocking, erotic fable Woman in the Dunes (Sunna no onna), and the sci-fi–tinged nightmare The Face of Another (Tanin no kao) are among cinema’s enduring enigmas and rarest pleasures.





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.

Special Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Video essay on the film by critic and festival programmer James Quandt
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation

One of the sixties’ great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic worldview of Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eija Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert; when he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night in the home of a young widow (Kiyoko Kishida) who lives in a hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema’s most bristling, unnerving, and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of everyday Sisyphean struggle, for which Teshigahara received an Academy Award nomination for best director.

Special Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Video essay on the film by critic and festival programmer James Quandt
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation

A staggering work of existential science fiction, The Face of Another dissects identity with the sure hand of a surgeon. Okuyama (Yojimbo‘s Tatsuya Nakadai), after being burned and disfigured in an industrial accident and estranged from his family and friends, agrees to his psychiatrist’s radical new experiment: a face transplant, created from the mold of a stranger. As Okuyama is thus further alienated from the strange world around him, he finds himself giving in to his darker temptations. With unforgettable imagery, Teshigahara’s film explores both the limits and freedom in acquiring a new persona, and questions the notion of individuality itself.

Special Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Video essay on the film by critic and festival programmer James Quandt
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation

The groundbreaking collaboration between Hiroshi Teshigahara and writer Kobo Abe is examined in the new documentary "Teshigahara and Abe" which includes exclusive video interviews with film programmer and professor Richard Pena, Japanese-film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, set designer Arata Isozaki screenwriter John Nathan, and producer Noriko Nomura. It explores the working relationship between the filmmaker Teshigahara and author Abe whom he adapted his novels. Also included on this supplemental disc are four short films from the director's early career.

Disc contents:
- Four short films by Hiroshi Teshigahara: Hokusai (1953, 22:55), Ikebana (1956, 32:27), Tokyo 1958 (1958, 24:00), and Ako/White Morning (1963, 28:40)
- 35 minute documentary about the working relationship between Teshigahara and Kobo Abe, including interviews with Japanese-film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato

These may be an acquired taste, but those who appreciate visual flair and solid storytelling should certainly enjoy Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara. Though Pitfall, Woman in the Dunes and The Face of Another were all released within a five-year period and share certain thematic elements, they each stand tall as unique tales of blurred identity, mortality and social awareness. Criterion's respectful treatment of these films should please Teshigahara fans, boasting strong technical presentations and a fine assortment of bonus features…with a reasonable price tag, at least on the Criterion scale. All things considered, there's plenty here to appreciate and enjoy through repeat viewings and thoughtful analysis. Three Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara comes very Highly Recommended.

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