# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiroshi-teshigahara
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:03:27.616Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiroshi-teshigahara"
name: "Hiroshi Teshigahara"
slug: "hiroshi-teshigahara"
description: "Hiroshi Teshigahara  was a Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and artist from the Japanese New Wave era. He is best known for the 1964 film Woman in the Dunes. He is also known for directing other titles such as The Face of Another (1966), Natsu no Heitai, and Pitfall (1962), which was Teshigahara's directorial debut. He has been called \"one of the most acclaimed Japanese directors of all time\". Teshigahara is the first person of Asian descent to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, accomplishing this in 1964 for his work on Woman in the Dunes. Apart from being a filmmaker, Teshigahara also practiced other arts, such as calligraphy, pottery, painting, opera and ikebana."
tagline: "Japanese film director (1927-2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hiroshi_Teshigahara_and_Toshiko_Kobayashi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1927-01-28"
deathDate: "2001-04-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.488876212207644
  historical:           19.017512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.sogetsu.or.jp/teshigaharahiroshi.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump