The Watcher in the Attic
5.9
When a tenant from a shabby 1920s boarding house secretly witnesses the landlady perform a truly heinous act, he is overcome with desire for her and begins plotting to kill a fellow tenant to demonstrate his love.
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Cast
11 people
Junko Miyashita
Minako Sayanomiya
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Renji Ishibashi
Saburo Gouda
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Shirō Yumemura
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Koichiro Sayanomiya
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Toshihiko Oda
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Kōji Yashiro
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Reiko Akitsu
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Noboru Tanaka Director · Akio Ido Screenplay Rampo Edogawa Author
United States release November 10, 1979 · Produced in Japan · Original title 江戸川乱歩猟奇館 屋根裏の散歩者
Production
Nikkatsu Corporation
Production · Studio
Japan
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Languages
Original title
江戸川乱歩猟奇館 屋根裏の散歩者
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · June 12, 1976
Theatrical
United States · November 10, 1979
Premiere
France
June 14, 2026 · Limited theatrical · Cinémathèque Française
Germany
July 19, 1991 · Theatrical
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