Thursday, January 15, 2015

Pitfall

Japan   H. Teshigahara

An early film in the Japanese new wave (1960 - 1970). This is experimental cinema at its best. Shot in stunning B/W, with imaginative camera moves; the film crackles on the screen with complicated, provocative perspectives that enrich the viewers' experience.

A poor miner is murdered in a case of mistaken identity...we follow his ghost as it (he?) searches in the land of the living for the reason he met such a cruel fate.

Film was stylish, gripping, emotionally resonant and innovative...the vanguard of many that emerged from Japan in the subsequent 10 years...one of those periods when a nation's cinema exploded with creative advances. HT followed this a year later with his iconic Woman in the Dunes.

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