Trivia

Teshigahara is the first person of Asian descent to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, which he earned in 1964 for Woman of the Dunes (1964).

Teshigahara was, along with Kenji Mizoguchi and Robert Bresson, one of Andrei Tarkovsky's favorite filmmakers. Like Tarkovsky, Teshigahara only made seven feature films during his career and both directors debuted in 1962. Both were interested in the relationship between philosophies of the East and the West.

Apart from being a filmmaker, Teshigahara also practiced other arts, such as calligraphy, pottery, painting, opera and ikebana (the art of flower arrangement).

Collaborated four times with Kôbô Abe, on the films Otoshiana (1962), Woman of the Dunes (1964), The Face of Another (1966), and Moetsukita chizu (1968).