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Woman in the Dunes, the second picture directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, 37, is a cinema masterpiece. Deep, original, strange, it propounds the parable of a young teacher (Eiji Okada again) who takes a field trip to an isolated duneland, misses the last train, accepts an invitation from the village elders to sleep in a shack at the bottom of a sand pit. In the morning he finds the ladder drawn up and no way out of the pit. "I'm sorry," says the young woman (Kyoko Kishada), who lives alone in the sand pit. "You cannot leave." Again...
Picasso of Flowers. Such works have made Sofu Teshigahara, 54, "the Picasso of flowers" in his native Japan. Sofu has broken all the rules of the centuries-old flower-arranging art known as ikebana. His innovations leave Japanese critics torn between a fear that ikebana is getting its death blow and admiration for a technique which, commented a leading Japanese art critic, "boggles the eyes and stuns the senses...
...famous flower arranger known professionally as Wafu (Gentle Breeze), young Teshigahara was arranging flowers at four, at 14 often replaced his father in classes, as a teen-ager plowed through the Chinese classics. But at 26, Teshigahara, who had chosen as his ikebana name Sofu (Cool Green Breeze), decided to strike out on his own. What Sofu did was as shocking to the classicists as pounding out madrigals to a boogie-woogie beat. The central canon of ikebana for centuries has been Ten-Chi-Jin (Heaven-Earth-Man), where heaven is symbolized by the tall central flower...