Original subtitles

A NIKKATSU PRODUCTION

Fantastic!

My Lady... I've been waiting for you

Come. Undress me

Yes, my Lady

My Lady...

You're just what I need

I feel like I'm in a dream

Since that day we met in the park, I've been dreaming...

Enough talkinig!

Pierrot...

Pierrot...

THE WATCHER IN THE ATTIC

Based on a novel by Edogawa Rampo

Screenplay: Akio Ido Photography: Masaru Mori

Lighting: Hideo Kumagaya Sound: Eiji Kimura

Sets: Yoshie Kikukawa Music: Jiro Tateshina

The cast:

Lady Minako: Junko Miyashita The Watcher: Renji Ishibashi

Painter: Tokuko Watanabe Clown: Aoi Nakajima

Priest: Koji Yashiro Chauffeur: Toshihiko Oda

Directed by Noboru Tanaka

I first ate this in France. An official took me

Every time I eat it I think of you...

Of your... your skin

Am I a frog?

Yes. Once a rich girl, now a frog

Good?

Yes

Glad to hear it

At least it's better than the tiger skin soup you had...

...in the Imperial Hotel

What's wrong?

Nothing

Don't you like it?

Finish your meal. I have to clear the table

All right!

Don't use the bowl for an ashtray.

We know!

Good morning

- Good morningig! - Good morninig!

May God bless you

You should visit my church, you know...

Open your heart...

to God and your neighbours

I have no heart

Then how do you live?

Well... I try to stay bored

Why not do somethin to help the poor

After all... you live off your parents' money!

So what?

After I'm dead, I'll give it all away

You smell of the devil

Like your paintings?

My paintins smell of death

That's blasphemy!

Sermons won't work on him

I'm afraid God has forsaken him

Don't worry... I'll arrange my own salvation

Mr Goda...

May I clear the table?

Mr. Goda...

Can you open the door please?

You could at least answer me

No wonder everyone hates you!

Don't you feel like confessing?

Confessing?

Tell Jesus your sins and repent

But I haven't done anything wrong...

When you worked at the factory, you stole food

Because I was hungry

Then you worked in a brothel

I only helped out

You're full of sin

Try to remember what else you did

Tell me...

Well... the boss gave me money. I sent it to my parents

You're a good daughter

But why did he give you the money? He touched you?

Didn't he... touch you here?

Then he did this... didn't he?

Didn't he do that?

Right, Ginko?

Don't move...

Animals are better than men

Your husband asked me about you the other day

I said I didn't know anything...

It's true... I don't

I'm on your side

I prepared that room

I told that clown to come. I did it all for you

What do you want?

I'm jealous of your chair, my Lady

Jealous of my chair?

My Lady, you must have noticed...

that your chair is always warm

I know you feel it against your skin

When you ordered this chair...

I asked the maker to do something for me

Like what?

Your skin is soft...

As soft as I imagined

Please...

Don't you want the money?

What are you doing?

Are you thinking of somebody else?

So... you want to do it, then?

Speak to me!

What's up with you?

My Lady...

My Lady...

Stop it!

Stop playing around

That song makes me sad

My Lady, I've been waiting for you

Stop this nonsense! I hate you!

Nice chair. Are you in there, Hiruta?

Are you there?

Hiruta?

Answer me

Yes, my Lady...

You're soft...

For so long, I've wanted you like this

My Lady...

My Lady...

It's you.

What's going on?

You want me. It's strange...

You're becoming what I always wanted you to be...

when I worked for your father

My Lady!

My Lady!

CLOWN'S BODY FOUND IN RIVER...

From Mrs. Kiyomiya

I'm glad you're here. Come in

I wanted to be sure

Sure?

And now you're here, it's obvious

I knew you were watching from the attic

Knowing that, spurred me on

Now I can't let you go...

You saw everything

Will you tell the police?

Maybe

You can't do that...

We're both guilty

I'm glad I came...

You and me are the same

Good morning

Good morning!

Good morning

Did you sleep well?

God blessed you. Don't you feel like working yet?

I think you have a problem with your nose. Is that right?

How do you know?

It's a classic case. You have the sniffles...

Your nose is stuffed up. You snore...

You sleep with your mouth open

Is that God's blessing too?

You're insufferable. Damn you!

Damn fool! Deserves to die!

Good morning

I'm beginning to worry...

Am I really so sinful?

Hiruta, where does Minako go these days?

To department stores...

Don't bother lying. I know what she does...

and it pleases me all the more

The police are gettin wise to you

Your husband's a powerful man. The can't touch you

I'm a nobody...

They'll treat me like an animal

They'll treat me like an animal

I don't care what happens to me...

But I'd be sad if I had to testify against you, my Lady

Crawling inside a chair isn't enough?

My Lady!

My Lady, please forgive me

You killed him. I know that

You were right above the dead man

The police will think it was suicide

You did it for me?

Maybe

At least I managed to get you out of that boring attic...

I guess you're right...

There, you were the centre of my world...

A vast place...

Immense and calm...

...like the deep sea

I always dreamed of you there...

with me...

And of committing crimes

Seems like we're in this together...

The festival's over

So the preacher killed himself?

I knew he was a fake

I confessed to Endo. Can I be saved now he's dead?

You confessed to him?

Yes. He said he'd save me

Don't worry

How can Lord Jesus help me now?

You're sure it'll be all right?

Would you like some coffee?

I'm interested in you...

I have a favour to ask...

What's this for?

I want you to do it again with someone else...

My Lady...

My Lady...

My Lady...

It's so hot...

I can't breathe!

My Lady!

My Lady!

Hiruta?

So, be a chair...

You, too, poured poison into me

Poison! You...

Arsenic. It's started working at last

I gave you a little every day...

just the way you fed me your poison

Drop by drop...

It's finished

Perverts!

Get out of here!

You're a pair of... perverts!

Get out!

Stop!

Let me go!

No!

Stop it!

It's calling me...

Your blood...

Suckin me in...

At 11:58 am on September 1st 1923...

a huge earthquake hit Tokyo

Fires raged for three days. More than 100,000 people were killed

When it was over, the old city had been destroyed forever...

THE END