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The Hole (? 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.
The Hole ? Ana | |
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Directed by | Kon Ichikawa |
Produced by | Hiroaki Fujii (planner) Hideo Nagata |
Written by | Kon Ichikawa (writer) Natto Wada (writer) |
Music by | Yasushi Akutagawa |
Cinematography | Setsuo Kobayashi |
Edited by | Tatsuji Nakashizu |
Distributed by | Daiei (1957), Kadokawa Pictures (current distributor) |
Release date | October 15, 1957 |
Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Screenplay
A female reporter, Nagako Kita (Machiko Ky?) 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.
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.
- Machiko Ky? as Nagako Kita
- Eiji Funakoshi as Koisuke Sengi
- So Yamamura as Keikichi Shirasu
- Kenji Sugawara as police Sarumaru
- Jun Hamamura as taxi driver
- Fujio Harumoto as Sotoji Mikui
- Sumiko Hidaka as Takeko Nakamura
- Shintar? Ishihara as writer
- Ryuichi Ishii as Shuta Torigai
- Yasuko Kawakami as Fukiko Mukui
- Tanie Kitabayashi as Suga Akabane
- Bontar? Miyake as chief editor Oya
- Mantar? Ushio as Sahei
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