| Title | Pitfall (1962) |
| Runtime | 1 hr. 36 min. |
| Director | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| Country | Japan |
| Studio | Criterion Collection |
| Genres | Drama | Foreign Language |
| Description | When a miner leaves his employers 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. |