Issued as the special features disc in set: Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara which includes Pitfall, Woman in the dunes, The face of another.
Teshigahara and Abe : a collaboration / Hokusai / Ikebana / Tokyo 1958 Ako / the Criterion Collection ; producer, Kate Elmore The National Film Center Japan presents ; Seinen Productions ; the Seinen Cooperative: Kozo Igawa, Naokichi Shiga, Hiroshi Teshigahara ; produced by Kozo Igawa ; script by Makoto Yoshikawa ; directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara a Seinen Productions film ; narrator, Tomoko Naraoka ; directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara (c2007 ; col. with b & w sequences ; 35 min.) -- (1953 ; b & w ; 23 min.) -- (1956 ; col. ; 33 min.) -- (1958 ; b & w with color sequences ; 24 min.) -- (1965 ; b & w ; 29 min.).
"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.
Not rated.
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widscreen (16.9) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
In Japanese and English with optional English subtitles.
Motion picture producers and directors--Japan. Screenwriters--Japan. Motion pictures--Japan. Printmakers--Japan. Flower arrangement, Japanese--Japan. Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma--Japon. Scénaristes--Japon. Cinéma--Japon. Graveurs d'estampes--Japon. Décoration florale japonaise--Japon. Flower arrangement, Japanese. Manners and customs. Motion picture producers and directors. Motion pictures. Printmakers. Screenwriters. Motion picture producers and directors--Japan. Dramatists--Japan. Motion pictures--Japan. Printmakers--Japan. Flower arrangement--Japan.
Tokyo (Japan)--Social life and customs--1945- Tōkyō (Japon)--Mœurs et coutumes--1945- Japan. Japan--Tokyo. Tokyo (Japan)--Social life and customs.
Motion pictures, Japanese. Short films--United States. Short films--Japan. Experimental films Documentary films. Fiction films. Short films. Short films. Documentary films. Short films. Feature films. Documentary. Documentaires. Courts métrages.