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The Pitfall and Kashi To Kodomo, is a 1962 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, written by Kōbō Abe. It was Teshigahara's first feature, and the first of his four film collaborations with Abe, the others being Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another and The Man Without a Map.
Pitfall: Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. With Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano, Hideo Kanze. A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
- (4.4K)
- Crime, Drama, Fantasy
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- 1962-07-01
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
An aggressively bleak and harrowing film, with its barely contained energy and almost gleeful obliteration of hope and reason, Pitfall brings people's venom, greed, uncertainty and despair to light in an uncompromising way.
- (6.5K)
- Teshigahara Productions
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
Synopsis. A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
Where to watch Pitfall (1962) starring Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano and directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara.
