Product Details

• Actors: Renji Ishibashi, Junko Miyashita, Aoi Nakajima, Hiroshi Cho, Tokuko Watanabe
• Directors: Noboru Tanaka, Tanaka Noboru
• Format: DVD, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Mondo Macabre
• DVD Release Date: October 28, 2008
• Run Time: 77 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001D5C1OY
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #73,243 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
The film is set in 1923 in a cheap Tokyo boarding house. The landlord, Goda, roams through the attic, observing the weird lives of his tenants through holes in the ceiling. One day he sees a prostitute murder one of her clients and decides that at last he has found his soul mate... Based on stories by the Japanese master of horror, Edogawa Rampo, the film features some of the most bizarre sex scenes ever, including the story of a man who hides inside a special chair, so that a naked woman can sit on him.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Watcher in the Attic, May 24, 2009

By	Bartok Kinski "A casual stroll through the lu... (Prague) - See all my reviews

Though this film, Watcher in the Attic, has received a lot of critical lambaste, I was really surprised by how well made it was. First of all, I love Rampo Edogawa novels. I thought his novel "Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination" was amazing, plus this is one of the few films where even though his character is the villain of sorts, his character is still sympathetic. In 1923 Tokyo the landlord of a boarding house spys on those dwelling below beneath his roof.

Though almost all of the characters excluding Minako Sayanomiya/Saburo Gouda and the landlord are two dimensional, it doesn't really hamper the film since it works best as a glimpse into the landlord's tortured and torturous life.

If you're a Rampo Edogawa fan, then you immediately need to get this.