Pitfall

1962, 1h 37min -

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. Show more

"Pitfall" — movie produced in Japan and released in 1962. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.5 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 37min. "Pitfall" is currently available to stream on The Criterion Channel. Click on a playlink to watch it now!