(aka 'Otoshiana' or 'Kashi to kodomo" or "The Pitfall')
directed by
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan 1962
Teshigahara's debut feature, Pitfall [Otoshiana], was the first of his
collaborations with novelist/playwright Kobo Abe and composer Toru Takemitsu.
Beautifully filmed in an abandoned, postwar coal-mining town in Western Japan,
it is part social-realist critique, part unsettling ghost fable. Examining
themes of alienation, workers' rights, and identity, Teshigahara and Abe's
exotically strange film evokes the cinema of Antonioni, Resnais, the writing of
Kafka, Beckett, Carroll, and the French existentialists. |
Theatrical Release: 1962 - Japan
DVD Review: Eureka (Master of Cinema series # 5) - Region 2 - PAL
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Distribution | Eureka (Master of Cinema Series # 5) - Region 2 - PAL | |
Runtime | 1:33:03 | |
Video | 1.33:1
Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: ? mb/s PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s |
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Audio | Japanese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Dolby) | |
Subtitles | English, None | |
Features |
Release Information: Edition Details: • Exclusive
full-length audio commentary by Tony Rayns |
Comments: |
This is an amazingly sharp dual layered disc- HD transferred, progressive - excellent contrast and strong black levels - well-appointed subtitles - Full-length Tony Rayns commentary! I don't know what else we can ask for. It looks like Eureka have pulled out all the stop in this new Masters of Cinema Series edition. Looks like a must-own for Japanese cinema fans. I am reminded of the Criterion Onibaba. out of |
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