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Pitfall / a Teshigahara production ; produced by Tadashi Ono ; screenplay by Kobo Abe ; directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara.
LIBRA DVD 006 132
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 393.
- Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara.
- Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara
- The Criterion collection ; 393
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Coal miners--Labor unions--Japan--Drama.
- Coal miners.
- Ghost plays.
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Coal miners--Labor unions.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Fantasy films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection : Janus Films, [2007]
- Language Note:
- In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD; NTSC, region 1; mono.; 1.33:1 aspect ratio.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- "When a miner leaves his employer 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."--Container.
- Participant:
- Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano, Hideo Kanze, Kunie Tanaka, Kei Sato, Kazuo Miyahara.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Hiroshi Segawa ; art direction, Masao Yamazaki ; music, Toru Takemitsu, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Yuji Takahashi ; editing, Fusako Shuzui.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.
- "New, restored high-definition digital transfer"--Container.
- Special features: video essay on the film by critic James Quandt; theatrical trailer.
- ISBN:
- 193412141X
- 9781934121412
- 1934121673
- 9781934121672
- OCLC:
- 156912655
- Publisher Number:
- CC1701D Criterion Collection
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