Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara : the supplements
Title:
Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara : the supplements
JLCTITLE245:
Janus Films ; Toho ; Sogetsu Foundation.
Edition:
Special ed., widescreen.
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2007.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (64 p. : ill.; 18 cm).
ISBN:
9781934121443
9781934121672
Series:
General Note:
Issued as the special features disc in set: Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara which includes Pitfall, Woman in the dunes, The face of another.
Abstract:
"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.
Reading Level:
Not rated.
Added Corporate Author:
Added Title:
Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara.
Added Title Contained Works:
Teshigahara and Abe.
Hokusai.
Ikebana.
Tokyo 1958.
Ako.
Variant Title:
Title on disc sleeve: Supplements to Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara
Contents:
Teshigahara and Abe : a collaboration / the Criterion Collection ; producer, Kate Elmore (c2007 ; col. ; 35 min.) -- Hokusai / The National Film Center Japan ; Seinen Productions ; the Seinen Cooperative: Kozo Igawa, Naokichi Shiga, Hiroshi Teshigahara ; produced by Kozo Igawa ; script by Makoto Yoshikawa ; directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara (1953 ; b&w ; 23 min.) -- Ikebana / a Seinen Productions film ; narrator, Tomoko Naraoka ; directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara (1956 ; col. ; 33 min.) -- Tokyo 1958 (1958 ; b&w with color sequences ; 24 min.) -- Ako / directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara (1965 ; b&w ; 29 min.).
Technical Details:
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widscreen (16.9) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Language:
In Japanese and English with optional English subtitles.