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. Nominate…
Nominated for best foreign-language film in 1964, and winning Teshigahara a best director Academy Award nomination a year later, “Woman in the Sands” was just Teshigahara’s second feature, a social and erotic allegory which yoked the political convictions of Teshigahara and screenwriter Kobo Abe, both members of Japan’s communist party in their youth, with Abe’s penchant for the darkly surreal.
Two more Abe adaptations of his own novels followed: “The Face of Another” and “The Man Without A Map , which San Sebastian describes with “Woman in the Sands” as Teshigahara’s “key works.” Neither, however, were particularly successful. Though making less of an international impact, beyond “Woman in the Sands,” than many other members of his generation, Teshigahara was still “a key figure in Japanese cinema in the 1960s thanks to a series of experimental poetic films and his extensive collaboration with the writer Kobo Abe,” San Sebastian argued announcing the retrospective on Thursday.
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