Pitfall

(1962)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 113 votes

Genres: Mystery, Fantasy, Crime

Year: 1962

Runtime: 97 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 勅使河原宏

Cast: 井川比佐志, 佐々木すみ江, 矢野宣, 観世栄夫, Куниэ Танака, 佐藤慶, Kazuo Miyahara, 奈良あけみ, 袋正, 金内喜久夫

Plot

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.

A documentary fantasy. 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? Can everything be manipulated?