OTOSHIANA
Die Fallgrube
The idea to make my first dramatic film, <i>Otoshiana</i>, came when I saw Abe Kôbôs <i>Rengoku</i> (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)
- ? - Dr. Flicker
- 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
