Pitfall

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Country:Japan

Director:Hiroshi Teshigahara

Program:Parallel Pathways

Year: 
1959

Summary:

This was Teshigahara’s first collaboration with metaphysical writer Kobo Abe who invented a documentary/fantasy double world with as many ghosts as people. Penniless miners talk in passing about labor unions. A miner and his young son go to a village in Kyushu where the miner has been told he'll find work, but it's a ghost town, save for one woman. The miner leaves and is followed by a man in a white suit and white gloves. A murder takes place: faked footprints, bribery and intrigue, investigations, a frame-up, and a ghost who wants to know why meet in a story of realism and the surreal. A child mutely witnesses all. Does the truth count for anything in this world or in the next?