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What it's about
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?
Cast and crew
- Director
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Writer
- Kôbô Abe
- Starring
- Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano
Details
- Release date
- Jul 1, 1962
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
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