A documentary fantasy. Penniless miners talk in passing about labor unions. A miner and his young son go to a village in Kyushu where the miner has been told he’ll find work, but it’s a ghost town, save for one woman. The miner leaves and is followed by a man in a white suit and white gloves. A murder takes place: faked footprints, bribery and intrigue, investigations, a frame-up, and a ghost who wants to know why meet in a story of realism and the surreal. A child mutely witnesses all. Does the truth count for anything in this world or in the next? Can everything be manipulated? |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.8/10 | |
Released: | July 1, 1962 | |
Runtime: | 97 min | |
Genres: | Drama Crime Fantasy | |
Companies: | Criterion Collection Toho Co. Teshigahara Productions Art Theatre Guild Toho | |
Cast: | Hisashi Igawa Hideo Kanze Sumie Sasaki Sen Yano | |
Crew: | Hiroshi Teshigahara Kôbô Abe | |
Tomasthedog : This show is so addicting I keep wanting to watch the next one!!