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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 de...

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Corporate Authors: Janus Films, Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Sogetsu Foundation (Firm), Teshigahara Purodakushon, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Teshigahara, Hiroshi, Abe, Kōbō, 1924-1993, Ōno, Tadashi, Igawa, Hisashi, Sasaki, Sumie, Yano, Sen, Kanze, Hideo, 1927-2007, Tanaka, Kunie, Satō, Kei, 1928-2010, Miyahara, Kazuo, Nara, Akemi, Fukuro, Tadashi, Kaneuchi, Kikuo, Omiya, Kanichi
Format: Video DVD
Language:Japanese
Language Notes:In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2007
Series:Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 393.
Subjects:
Coal miners > Japan > Drama.
Migrant labor > Japan > Drama.
Ghosts > Japan > Drama.
Abe, Kōbō, > 1924-1993 > Film adaptations.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Feature films.
Melodrama.
Fantasy films.
Experimental films.
Film adaptations.
Melodrama > Feature.
Fantasy > Feature.
Experimental > Feature.
Adaptation > Feature.
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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.
Item Description:DVD release of the 1962 motion picture.
Special features: video essay by film critic James Quandt ; theatrical trailer.
Based on a story by Kobo Abe.
One of three films in the set: Pitfall, Woman in the dunes, The face of another: three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 explanation booklet as supplement (61 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Format:DVD; region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital; mono.; NTSC.
Production Credits:Cinematography, Hiroshi Segawa ; editor, Fusako Shuzui ; music, Toru Takemitsu, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Yuji Takahashi.
ISBN:193412141X (disc)
9781934121412 (disc)
1934121673 (set)
9781934121672 (set)