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おとし穴 = Pitfall /

Otoshiana = Pitfall /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC1701D | Criterion Collection | (disc)CC1700D | Criterion Collection | (set)Language: Japanese Original language: Japanese Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 393.Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2007Copyright date: ©1962Edition: Special ed., full screenDescription: 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 193412141X
  • 9781934121412
  • 1934121673
  • 9781934121672
Other title:
  • Pitfall
  • Also known as: Kashi to kodomo
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993. Rengoku
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.M45 P584355 2007
NLM classification:
  • CC1701D
Online resources:
Contents:
Pitfall = Otoshiana (1962) -- Woman in the dunes = Suna no onna (1964) -- The face of another = Tanin no Kao (1966).
Production credits:
  • Cinematography, Hiroshi Segawa ; editor, Fusako Shuzui ; music, Toru Takemitsu, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Yuji Takahashi.
Cast: Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano, Hideo Kanze, Kunie Tanaka, Kei Sato, Kazuo Miyahara, Akemi Nara, Tadashi Fukuro, Kikuo Kaneuchi, Kan'ichi Omiya.Summary: When a miner leaves his employer 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02205 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050183791

Based on the television play by Kōbō Abe.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1962.

Issued in set: Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara which includes Pitfall, Woman in the dunes, The face of another.

Special features: video essay by film critic James Quandt (19 min.); theatrical trailer.

Pitfall = Otoshiana (1962) -- Woman in the dunes = Suna no onna (1964) -- The face of another = Tanin no Kao (1966).

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

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