A Watcher in the Attic(1994)

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.

Genre: Fantasy, Drama

Director: Akio Jissôji

Actors: Hiroshi Mikami, Kan'ichi Hiraga, Masami Horiuchi, Keiko Kaga, Masahiro Kobayashi, Masumi Miyazaki, Naomasa Musaka, Sosuke Saito, Kyûsaku Shimada, Hitomi Shimizu

Release date: 1994-03-25

Country of origin: Japan

Length: 1h 14m

Ratings:

• 6.3/10