Pitfall
おとし穴 (original)
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.
Starring Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano, Hideo Kanze, Kunie Tanaka, Kei Satō, Kazuo Miyahara, Akemi Nara, Tadashi Fukuro, Kikuo Kaneuchi
Watch "Pitfall" on Criterion Channel released in 1962. It's a crime and drama movie, and has a rating of 7.5 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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