Three Films By Hiroshi Teshigahara Criterion Japan Like New 3-Dvd Set‼️Oop‼️
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THREE FILMS BY HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA CRITERION JAPAN LIKE NEW 3-DVD SET‼️OOP‼️. 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. THREE FILMS BY HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA CRITERION JAPAN LIKE NEW ‼️ OOP ‼️ COLLECTOR’S SET - 3 DVDS & BOOK IN BOX I never sell anything that I do not like and my offerings are always as stated and always playable. if you ever have a question or problem, please let me know and I will answer your question or take care of the problem. 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. THE THREE FILMS: PITFALL (1962): 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. WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964): One of the 1960s’ great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eiji Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in a vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema’s most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of everyday life as a Sisyphean struggle—an achievement that garnered Teshigahara an Academy Award nomination for best director. THE FACE OF ANOTHER (1966): 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 experiment: a face transplant, created from the mold of a stranger. As Okuyama is thus further alienated from the 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. COLLECTOR’S 4-DVD SET SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES Restored high-definition digital transfers Video essays on all three films by critic and festival programmer James Quandt Four short films by Hiroshi Teshigahara: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako/White Morning (1963) A 2007 documentary about the working relationship between Teshigahara and Kobo Abe, including interviews with Japanese-film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato PLUS: Essays by James Quandt, Howard Hampton, Audie Bock, and Peter Grilli and Max Tessier’s 1964 interview with Teshigahara COMBINED SHIPPING IS AVAILABLE. YOU ONLY PAY THE ACTUAL SHIPPING CHARGE. PUT THE DVDS YOU WANT TO BUY IN YOUR CART, SEND ME A MESSAGE & I WILL SEND YOU AN INVOICE WITH THE COMBINED SHIPPING CHARGE. ** INTERNATIONAL ORDERS ARE HANDLED USING EBAY'S GLOBAL SHIPPING PROGRAM AND I AM UNABLE TO ADJUST, COMBINE OR ALTER THOSE INVOICES.
