The Hole (1957 film)

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The Hole 穴 Ana
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
Editing by	Tatsuji Nakashizu
Distributed by	Daiei (1957), Kadokawa Pictures (current distributor)
Release dates	October 15, 1957 (1957-10-15)^[1]
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

The Hole (穴, Ana) 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.

Plot

A female reporter, Nagako Kita (Machiko Kyo) 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.

Staff

The art director was Tomoo Shimogawara.^[2]

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

↑ (Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1957/cg004010.htm accessed 12 May 2009
↑ Full cast and crew for Ana. IMDb, accessed 13 May 2009.

Critical reception

Films directed by Kon Ichikawa

A Thousand and One Nights with Toho (1947)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
The Hole (1957)
Enjō (1958)
Odd Obsession (1959)
Fires on the Plain (1959)
Jokyo (1960)
Her Brother (1960)
Ten Dark Women (1961)
Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)
An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Alone Across the Pacific (1963)
Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
Topo Gigio and the Missile War (1967)
To Love Again (1971)
Visions of Eight (1973)
The Inugamis (1976)
Koto (1980)
The Makioka Sisters (1983)
Ohan (1984)
The Burmese Harp (1985)
Princess from the Moon (1987)
47 Ronin (1994)
The Inugamis (2006)

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