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.[1][2][3][4]
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Directed by | Kon Ichikawa |
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Cinematography | Setsuo Kobayashi |
Edited by | Tatsuji Nakashizu |
Music by | Yasushi Akutagawa |
Distributed by | Daiei |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
A 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.[5]
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.
The art director was Tomoo Shimogawara.[6]