Pitfall: Outdoor Miner
By July 09, 2007
Pitfall is the kind of semiuncanny, equivocally realist movie you might hope to duck into in a . . . Read more »
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.
| The miner/Otsuka | Hisashi Igawa |
| Man in white | Kunie Tanaka |
| The cop | Hideo Kanze |
| The son | Kazuo Miyahara |
| Shopkeeper | Sumie Sasaki |
| 2nd miner | Kanichi Omiya |
| Reporter | Kei Sato |
| Toyama | Sen Yano |
| Dead miner | Ton Shimada |
| Farmer | Shigeru Matsuo |
| Photographer | Kikuo Kaneuchi |
| Director | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| Screenplay | Kôbô Abe |
| Producer | Tadashi Ono |
| Cinematography | Hiroshi Segawa |
| Editing | Fusako Morimichi |
| Sound | Kenji Mori and Junosuke Okuyama |
| Titles | Kiyosji Awazu |
| Artistic advisor | Masao Yamazaki |
By July 09, 2007
Pitfall is the kind of semiuncanny, equivocally realist movie you might hope to duck into in a . . . Read more »
By July 09, 2007
The names Hiroshi Teshigahara, Kobo Abe, and Toru Takemitsu loom large among Japanese . . . Read more »
By July 09, 2007
Pitfall is the kind of semiuncanny, equivocally realist movie you might hope to duck into in a . . . Read more »
By July 09, 2007
The names Hiroshi Teshigahara, Kobo Abe, and Toru Takemitsu loom large among Japanese . . . Read more »
By July 09, 2007
Pitfall is the kind of semiuncanny, equivocally realist movie you might hope to duck into in a . . . Read more »
By July 09, 2007
The names Hiroshi Teshigahara, Kobo Abe, and Toru Takemitsu loom large among Japanese . . . Read more »