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Poster for PITFALL

PITFALL

Opens on October 7

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara Run Time: 97 min. Release Year: 1962 Language: Japanese

Starring: Hideo Kanze, Hisashi Igawa, Kunie Tanaka, Sen Yano, Sumie Sasaki

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.

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