Teshigahara and Abe
Jul 10 2007
•1h 34m
•Documentary
A 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring interviews with film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, film programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan
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Donald Richie
Self
Tadao Sato
Self
Richard Pena
Self
Arata Isozaki
Self
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