Pitfall
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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.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Video essay on the film by critic and festival programmer James Quandt
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
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Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Video essay on the film by critic and festival programmer James Quandt
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
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Cast
- Hisashi Igawa
- The miner/Otsuka
- Kunie Tanaka
- Man in white
- Hideo Kanze
- The cop
- Kazuo Miyahara
- The son
- Sumie Sasaki
- Shopkeeper
- Kanichi Omiya
- 2nd miner
- Kei Sato
- Reporter
- Sen Yano
- Toyama
- Ton Shimada
- Dead miner
- Shigeru Matsuo
- Farmer
- Kikuo Kaneuchi
- Photographer
Credits
- Director
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Screenplay
- Kôbô Abe
- Producer
- Tadashi Ono
- Cinematography
- Hiroshi Segawa
- Editing
- Fusako Morimichi
- Sound
- Kenji Mori
- Sound
- Junosuke Okuyama
- Titles
- Kiyosji Awazu
- Artistic advisor
- Masao Yamazaki
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