A Watcher in the Attic

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 womans 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 residents 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