A Watcher in the Attic (1993)

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Country: Japan
Genres: Mystery
Release: 1994-03-26
Director: Akio Jissôji
Writers: Rampo Edogawa , Akio Satsukawa
Language: Japanese
Stars: Hiroshi Mikami , Kan’ichi Hiraga , Masami Horiuchi , Keiko Kaga , Masahiro Kobayashi , Masumi Miyazaki , Naomasa Musaka , Sosuke Saito , Kyusaku Shimada , Hitomi Shimizu
Runtime: 74 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Yaneura no sanposha , Edogawa Ranpo gekijô-ban: Yaneura no sanposha (Japan) , 屋根裏の散歩者（1992） (Japan) , A Watcher in the Attic , A Watcher in the Attic (United Kingdom) , A Watcher in the Attic (United States of America)
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt0228254