- 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 in 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.
- Collaborated four times with Kôbô Abe, on the films Pitfall (1962), Woman in the Dunes (1964), The Face of Another (1966), and The Man Without a Map (1968).
- Apart from being a filmmaker, Teshigahara also practiced other arts, such as calligraphy, pottery, painting, opera and ikebana (the art of flower arrangement).
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