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]

Plot

A female 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.

Staff

The art director was Tomoo Shimogawara.[6]

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

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