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7.3A 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.
Released: 1962-07-0197 minDir: Hiroshi TeshigaharaMystery, Fantasy, Crime
Stream on: YouTube TV, Criterion Channel
Cast
- Hisashi Igawa as Otsuka
- Sumie Sasaki as Shopkeeper
- Sen Yano as Toyama
- Hideo Kanze as Policeman
- Kunie Tanaka as Man in White Suit
- Kei Satō as Reporter
Themes
- lie
- surreal
- miner
- rural area
- mining town
- ghost
- labor union
- ghost town
- shopkeeper
- japanese new wave
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Ratings
IMDb
7.5/10
4,484 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
- Year
- 1962
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Fantasy
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 97
- FilmAffinity ID
- 767510
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- publication date
- 1962-01-01
- title
- おとし穴
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Connections
The Woman in the Dunes
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The Criterion Collection
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International Standard Book Number
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Kyushu
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IMDb
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reincarnation
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labor union
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Kōbō Abe
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ghost town
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Toho
Company
cinema of Japan
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Shohei Imamura
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Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan
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The Woman in the Dunes
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Hiroshi Teshigahara
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Toshi Ichiyanagi
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Kunie Tanaka
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The Face of Another
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Rikyu
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Hisashi Igawa
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Categories
1960s avant-garde and experimental films1962 drama films1962 films1962 Japanese films1962 Japanese-language filmsFilms about the labor movementFilms directed by Hiroshi TeshigaharaJapanese avant-garde and experimental filmsJapanese black-and-white filmsJapanese drama filmsJapanese-language drama filmsTemplate film date with 1 release dateToho films