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.
Pitfall has an eerie and foreboding atmosphere, and also feels original. It contains social sattire, and the director portrays a flawed mining industry and added a twist with the ghost story. A big classic, this one.
Genre: Crime/Drama
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