A Watcher in the Attic
74 mins
In 1923, in a cheap Tokyo rooming house, a languid young man named Goda was feeling bored with his life. One day while playing dress up with a woman’s wig and lipstick, he accidentally loosens a ceiling board in his closet. Climbing up, he discovers a dimly lit passageway under the roof leading to the resident’s other rooms. Soon he is scampering about like a ninja, making knotholes and moving ceiling boards for a better view. What he sees are the intimate acts - sadistic, criminal or vaguely mad - that reveal infinitely more about his fellow roomers than the various fronts they present to the world.
Kan'ichi Hiraga
Kusuo Kitamura
Hitomi Shimizu
Kazue Uotani
Nao Suzuki
Tamayo Sakimura
Sosuke Saito
Eiji Otaka
Moto Seta
Producer
Isao Matsushita
Music
Eiji Kimura
Sound Recordist
Makoto Ishihara
Producer
Iwao Takahashi
Assistant Director
Akio Satsukawa
Screenplay
Masao Nakabori
Director of Photography