The Pit, is a 1957 black-and-white comedy/mystery Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa.

[1][2][3][4] 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.