Pitfall
– A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit o..
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.
01 Jul 1962
Japanese
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Kôbô Abe (screenplay), Kôbô Abe (story)
Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano, Hideo Kanze
A documentary fantasy. Penniless miners talk in passing about labor unions. A miner and his young son go to a village in Kyushu where the miner has been told he'll find work, but it's a ghost town, save for one woman. The miner leaves and is followed by a man in a white suit and white gloves. A murder takes place: faked footprints, bribery and intrigue, investigations, a frame-up, and a ghost who wants to know why meet in a story of realism and the surreal. A child mutely witnesses all. Does the truth count for anything in this world or in the next? Can everything be manipulated?
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