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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) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inescapable destiny. 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.
Original Release
07/01/1962
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Hisashi Igawa | Miner / Otsuka |
Sumie Sasaki | Shopkeeper |
Sen Yano | Toyama |
Hideo Kanze | Policeman |
Kunie Tanaka | Man in white suit |
Kei Satô | Reporter |
Kazuo Miyahara | The miner's son / Miner's Son |
Akemi Nara | Wife |
Tadashi Fukuro | Second union member |
Kikuo Kaneuchi | Photographer |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Hisashi Igawa | Miner / Otsuka |
Sumie Sasaki | Shopkeeper |
Sen Yano | Toyama |
Hideo Kanze | Policeman |
Kunie Tanaka | Man in white suit |
Kei Satô | Reporter |
Kazuo Miyahara | The miner's son / Miner's Son |
Akemi Nara | Wife |
Tadashi Fukuro | Second union member |
Kikuo Kaneuchi | Photographer |
Kanichi Ômiya | Second miner |
Shigeru Matsuo | Farmer |
Ton Shimada | Dead miner |
Sanpei Asakura | |
Heiguro Matsumoto | Labor Boarding House Owner |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Tadashi Ôno | Producer |