The Hole (1957 film)

{{About|the 1957 film||The Hole (disambiguation){{!}}The Hole}}

{{Infobox film

| name = The Hole
穴
Ana

| image = The Hole 1957 poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical poster

| director = Kon Ichikawa

| producer = {{ubl|Hiroaki Fujii (planner)|Hideo Nagata}}

| writer = {{ubl|Kon Ichikawa|Natto Wada}}

| narrator =

| starring =

| music = Yasushi Akutagawa

| cinematography = Setsuo Kobayashi

| editing = Tatsuji Nakashizu

| distributor = Daiei Film

| released = {{film date|1957|10|15}}

| runtime = 103 minutes

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

| budget =

}}

{{nihongo|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.{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%A9%B4-426051|publisher=KOTOBANK|title=穴| accessdate= January 22, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%A9%B4-426051|title=穴|publisher=kotobank|accessdate=27 December 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://sp.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=25454&key_search=%E7%A9%B4|title=穴|publisher=Kinema Junpo|accessdate=27 December 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/Details?id=6722|title=穴|publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs|accessdate=27 December 2020}}

Plot

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.{{cite web|url=https://eiga-watch.com/hole-in-one/|publisher=映画ウオッチ|title=穴| accessdate= January 22, 2021}}

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.

Staff

The art director was Tomoo Shimogawara.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050127/fullcredits#cast Full cast and crew for Ana]. IMDb, accessed 13 May 2009.

Cast

Machiko Kyō 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
Shintarō Ishihara as writer
Ryuichi Ishii as Shuta Torigai
Yasuko Kawakami as Fukiko Mukui
Tanie Kitabayashi as Suga Akabane
Bontarō Miyake as chief editor Oya
Mantarō Ushio as Sahei

References

Category:1957 films

Category:Japanese comedy mystery films

Category:Japanese black-and-white films

Category:Films directed by Kon Ichikawa

Category:Daiei Film films

Category:1950s comedy mystery films

Category:Films with screenplays by Natto Wada

Category:Films with screenplays by Kon Ichikawa

Category:Films scored by Yasushi Akutagawa

Category:1950s Japanese films