Watcher in the Attic ( Edogawa Ranpo ryôki-kan: Yaneura no sanposha ) ( Edogawa Rampo ryôki-kan: Yaneura no samposha )

Watcher in the Attic (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Edogawa Ranpo ryôki-kan: Yaneura no sanposha
Alternate Title: Edogawa Rampo ryôki-kan: Yaneura no samposha
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
76 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1976 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Noboru Tanaka

Written By:
Rampo Edogawa
Akio Ido

Actors:
Junko Miyashita ..... Minako Sayanomiya
Renji Ishibashi ..... Saburo Gouda
Hiroshi Chô ..... Koichiro Kiyomiya
Aoi Nakajima ..... Hiruta
Toshihiko Oda ..... Pierrot
Yumemura Shiro ..... Ginko
Kazuko Tajima ..... Tomita Miyuki
Tokuko Watanabe ..... Endo
Yasuji Yashiro

Synopsis:

Goda (Renji Ishibashi) is the introverted owner of a boarding house, where he routinely spies on his tenants through strategically placed holes in the ceiling. One afternoon, he witnesses the wealthy Lady Minako (Junko Miyashita), having a sexual encounter with one of the tenants, whose fetish is to dress up as a clown. Fully aware that she is being watched, Lady Minako kills her lover. Goda, conscious that Minako is aware of a witness to her crime, does not go to the police. Instead he takes up the opportunity to kill another lodger himself. Soon the two meet and a deadly trust is born. Watcher in the Attic is based on a novel by the Japanese autor and critic Taro Hiral, better known as Rampo Edogawa. Rampo was an admirer of western mystery writers such as Edgar Allen Poe. His pseudonym is actually a Japanese rendering of Poe's name. Like Poe's works, Watcher in the Attic is a tale of mystery and macabre.

The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing a customer, and decides he's found his soulmate.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 22 September, 2009.

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