The Hole (1957 film)

The Hole (穴, Ana) a.k.a. Hole in One a.k.a. The Pit, is a 1957 black-and-white comedy/mystery Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa.

The Hole
穴
Ana
Directed byKon Ichikawa
Produced byHiroaki Fujii (planner)
Hideo Nagata
Written byKon Ichikawa (writer)
Natto Wada (writer)
Music byYasushi Akutagawa
CinematographySetsuo Kobayashi
Edited byTatsuji Nakashizu
Distributed byDaiei (1957), Kadokawa Pictures (current distributor)
Release date
October 15, 1957 (1957-10-15)[1]
Running time
103 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Plot

A female reporter, Nagako Kita (Machiko Kyō) is fired for writing about police corruption. To make money she hides while a weekly magazine publishes photos of her, and offers a prize to the person who discovers her. A group of three bank embezzlers, So Yamamura, Eiji Funakoshi, and Sotoji Mukui (Fujio Harumoto) employ Mukui's younger sister Fukiko as a fake employee at the bank and plan to make her disappear when the real woman appears again and blame the crime on her.

When she contacts Mukui about the crime, she finds him dead and Fukiko pulls a gun on her. She contacts the policeman who was fired, who is now a private detective.

Staff

The art director was Tomoo Shimogawara.[2]

Cast
  • Machiko Kyō as Nagako Kita
  • Eiji Funakoshi as Koisuke Sengi
  • So Yamamura as Keikichi Shirasu
  • Kenji Sugawara as police Sarumaru
  • Jun Hamamura as taxi driver
  • Fujio Harumoto as Sotoji Mikui
  • Sumiko Hidaka as Takeko Nakamura
  • Shintarō Ishihara as writer
  • Ryuichi Ishii as Shuta Torigai
  • Yasuko Kawakami as Fukiko Mukui
  • Tanie Kitabayashi as Suga Akabane
  • Bontarō Miyake as chief editor Oya
  • Mantarō Ushio as Sahei

Critical reception
gollark: Also, £103/year on reading? That's only something like 15 books.
gollark: Just determine some reasonable amount of things to get for yourself and donate/save excesses, I guess.
gollark: You should not let yourself be bound by the wrong and bad spending habits of the median family.
gollark: You might want to actually have savings, as a worrying amount of people apparently don't.
gollark: You might live in somewhere with higher cost of living, as many software types do.

References
  1. (in Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1957/cg004010.htm accessed 12 May 2009
  2. Full cast and crew for Ana. IMDb, accessed 13 May 2009.


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