Pitfall
1962 · Movie · 97 min · ★ 7.3 · 95% critics
A job seeker and his young son arrive in a town that seems nearly empty, hoping for a fresh start. After a run of misfortune, he becomes entangled in a strange community of people who seem unable to move on.
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Details
- Original title
- おとし穴
- Years
- 1962
- Release date
- 1962-07-01
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Critic score
- 95/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 (111 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy eerie, allegorical dramas with a dreamlike mood, somewhere between Ugetsu and The Man Without a Map; Not for you if you want fast pacing or clear-cut answers.
Pros: eerie premise; haunting atmosphere; thought-provoking mood | Cons: very slow pace; sparse storytelling; bleak tone
Themes
- lie
- surreal
- miner
- rural area
- mining town
- ghost
- labor union
- ghost town
- shopkeeper
- japanese new wave
- miners strike
- father son relationship
Cast & crew
Hisashi Igawa
as Otsuka
Sumie Sasaki
as Shopkeeper
Sen Yano
as Toyama
Hideo Kanze
as Policeman
Kunie Tanaka
as Man in White Suit
Kei Satō
as Reporter
- KM
Kazuo Miyahara
as Miner's Son
- AN
Akemi Nara
as Wife
- TF
Tadashi Fukuro
as Second Union Member
- KK
Kikuo Kaneuchi
as Photographer
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara