Word: teshigahara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There are many beautiful things," Sofu Teshigahara has written. "The silent beauty of a flower surpasses them all. Among beautiful women there are said to be silent beautiful women, but none can compare with the silent flower." Sofu (the name means Blue Wind) is revered for such views in a land where a beautiful blossom is a benison. Round, gnome-like Teshigahara, 77, is Japan's most innovative and successful master of the ancient art of ikebana, which bears about the same relationship to flower arranging as usually practiced in the West as Rachmaninoff to country rock. Within that...
...looking for help and a place to hide after he goes AWOL. He is aided by sympathetic families, a bar girl, a truck driver and, ultimately, by a counseling group that convinces him that going back to base, then turning himself in, is the best thing to do. Hiroshi Teshigahara's previous film, Woman in the Dunes, (1964), was overburdened by a kind of febrile surrealism, but it at least demonstrated energy. Summer Soldiers is slackly directed in a trumped-up documentary style. Jim is a numbingly inarticulate spokesman for war resistance; like the well-scrubbed kids...