Pitfall (1962)

An unemployed miner travels with his son to a deserted town after being lead to believe he’d find a job, only to be murdered by a mysterious man in white. The miner was the doppelganger of a union leader at a different mine and these events spurn a battle between two unions. This is my second Hiroshi Teshigahara film from a Criterion set that I borrowed and while I have found both of them engrossing, I’m sure there are bits I miss between the cultural differences. There is a lot of the film seemingly open to interpretation. The dead exist in an afterlife that parallels the real world. They are unable to interact with those still alive, completely frustrated in any attempt to bring the truth to light . The man in white remains a mysterious character throughout, swooping out as quickly as he swoops in.