Hisashi Igawa
Miner / Otsuka
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A mysterious man in white, whose identity we never learn, murders an unemployed miner who bears an uncanny resemblance to the union leader at the old pit and bribes the only witness to frame the union leader of the new pit.
Pitfall: Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. With Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano, Hideo Kanze. A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
- (4.4K)
- Crime, Drama, Fantasy
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- 1962-07-01
Hiroshi Teshigahara’s debut feature and first collaboration with novelist Kobo Abe, Pitfall is many things: a mysterious, unsettling ghost story, a portrait of human alienation, and a compellingly surreal critique of soulless industry, shot in elegant black and white.
- The Miner/Otsuka
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara • 1962 • Japan Starring Hisashi Igawa, Kunie Tanaka, Hideo Kanze. When a miner leaves his employers and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) ...
An aggressively bleak and harrowing film, with its barely contained energy and almost gleeful obliteration of hope and reason, Pitfall brings people's venom, greed, uncertainty and despair to light in an uncompromising way.
- (6.6K)
- Teshigahara Productions
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
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The Pitfall and Kashi To Kodomo, is a 1962 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, written by Kōbō Abe. It was Teshigahara's first feature, and the first of his four film collaborations with Abe and Takemitsu, the others being Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another and The Ruined Map.
