Teshigahara Hiroshi In Japanese New Wave Cinema

Teshigahara Hiroshi is a very important director in Japanese New Wave Cinema, the introduction and research of him and his films are so necessary, because he is not considered to be important.His film style is unique, influnenced by the existentialism and surrealism. He has been worked from documentary to feature film. Especially, irreality in his documentaries laied the root for the style of surrealism in his feature films. He insists on the independent production from beginning to the end, and creates a precedent of screening national films in ATG. Furthermore, in 1965, Woman in the Dunes (1964) was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The reason of his success has two sides, on one hand, his films reveal the theme of temporal spirit, on the other hand, his strategies of film production has been changed.The thesis mainly trace his film works, focus on his most important films:The Pitfall, Woman in the Dunes and The Face of Another. In the part of discussing these films, the thesis tries to analyze the theme, style and international of these films. And it will provides the idea of both the international and national to the film making.