Unspined: 4 Short Films by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Published: April 4, 2020, 3:26 a.m.

We finish up the 3 Films by Teshigahara boxset with four more films. Aside from the three collaborations with surrealist novelist Kobo Abe on the Criterion release are four shorts, three documentaries on a variety of subjects, and Teshigahara’s portion of an international anthology on the lives of teenage girls: Hokusai (1953) Ikebana (1956) Tokyo 1958 (1958) Ako (1965)