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The Hole (1957 film)
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aka Hole in One aka The Pit, is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese film
directed by Kon Ichikawa
. The genres of the film are comedy and mystery.
The film has perspicacious visual design combined with comedy and farce.
The art director was Tomoo Shimogawara.
Cinema of Japan
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2009 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived...
directed by Kon Ichikawa
Kon Ichikawa
was a Japanese film director.-Early life and career:Ichikawa was born in Ise, Mie Prefecture. In the 1930s Ichikawa attended a technical school in Osaka. Upon graduation, in 1933, he found a job with a local rental film studio, J.O. Studio, in their animation department...
. The genres of the film are comedy and mystery.
The film has perspicacious visual design combined with comedy and farce.
The art director was Tomoo Shimogawara.
Cast
- Machiko KyōMachiko Kyois a Japanese actress whose film work occurred primarily during the 1950s. She rose to extraordinary domestic praise in Japan for her work in two of the greatest Japanese films of the 20th century, Akira Kurosawa's Rashōmon and Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu.Machiko trained to be a dancer before...
as Nagako Kita - Eiji FunakoshiEiji Funakoshiwas a Japanese actor. He received the Kinema Junpo Awards for Best Actor and the Mainichi Film Concours for Best Actor for his performance in Fires on the Plain.-Biography:...
as Koisuke Sengi - Sō 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 IshiharaShintaro Ishiharais a Japanese author, actor, politician and the governor of Tokyo since 1999.- Early life and artistic career :Shintarō was born in Suma-ku, Kobe. His father Kiyoshi was an employee, later a general manager, of a shipping company. Shintarō grew up in Zushi...
as writer - Ryuichi Ishii as Shuta Torigai
- Yasuko Kawakami as Fukiko Mukui
- Tanie KitabayashiTanie Kitabayashiwas a Japanese actress.Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards...
as Suga Akabane - Bontarō Miyake as chief editor Oya
- Mantarō Ushio as Sahei