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TESHIGAHARA  HIROSHI
Japan  1962

Producer Ôno Tadashi

Screenplay Abe Kôbô

Camera Segawa Hiroshi

Editing Shûzui Fusako

Sound Okuyama Jûnosuke, Mori Kenji

Light Kume Mitsuo

Music Ichiyanagi Toshi, Takahashi Yûji, Takemitsu Tôru

Production Designer Yamazaki Masao

Assistant Director Yoshino Yasuo

In theatres on 1. 7. 1962


Actors
Igawa Hisashi (Bergmann, Chef der zweiten Gewerkschaft), Miyahara Kazuo (Sohn des Bergmanns), Yano Sen (Chef der ersten Gewerkschaft), Sasaki Sumie (Frau vom Süßwarenladen), Tanaka Kunie (X), Kanze Hideo (Kommissar), Ômiya Kanichi (Freund des Bergmanns), Matsuo Shigeru (Bauer), Satô Kei (Reporter), Kaneuchi Kikuo (Fotograf), Matsumoto Heikurô (Leiter des Arbeiterheims), Nara Akemi (seine Frau), Shimada Jun (unbekannter Mann), Fukuro Tadashi (Mann von der zweiten Gewerkschaft)

Production
Teshigahara Productions


35mm/1:1,33/Black-and-white
OmeU
95  minutes
Art Theatre Guild
OTOSHIANA
DIE FALLGRUBE

   V'03
shown at the V'03


The idea to make my first dramatic film, Otoshiana, came when I saw Abe Kôbôs Rengoku (Purgatory), a television drama produced and broadcast by a Kyûshû television station, and thought it could be made into a film. It was a drama on the theme of the Mitsui-Miike Coal Mine strike, then a large social problem, and was shown as a television film at the Art Festival. I intuitively thought that if I could practically present an extremely realistic depiction of Abe Kôbôs unique allegorical story against the background of a desolate Kyûshû coal mining town, a fantastic space would emerge from the conflict between the two.
(Teshigahara Hiroshi, in: «Japanese Documentaries of the 1960s», Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Catalogue 1993, pp. 4243)

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