
Pastoral: To Die in the Country(1974)
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

Tokyo 1923, one of the residents of a boarding house discovers a way to spy on the other tenants, leading to dramatic consequences.

Hiroshi Mikami
Saburo Goda
Kanichi Hiraga
Kusuo Kitamura

Masami Horiuchi
Kiichiro Katabe

Masumi Miyazaki
Teruko Akiduki

Naomasa Musaka
Mikihiko Endo

Kyūsaku Shimada
Kogoro Akechi
Hitomi Shimizu
Kazue Uotani

Minori Terada
Keizo Koshiduka

Keiko Kaga
Nanako Shinjo
Nao Suzuki
Tamayo Sakimura
A Watcher in the Attic is a fantasy, drama film released in 1994. Directed by Akio Jissoji, it stars Hiroshi Mikami, Kanichi Hiraga, Masami Horiuchi. Tokyo 1923, one of the residents of a boarding house discovers a way to spy on the other tenants, leading to dramatic consequences.
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