Secrets behind the Wall

In a housing complex, a college prep student is spying on his neighbour, a former peace activist, who now leads an ordinary life as a housewife, having a secret affair with an exlover. The voyeurism of the isolated and gloomy young man eventually leads to an explosion of his madness.
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Script: Yoshiaki Otani (collective pseudonym of Chusei Sone, Takao Yoshizawa, Mikio Terashima)
Cinematography: Hideo Ito
Editing: Fumio Miyata
Sound: Shin Fukuda
Music: Noboru Nishiyama
Actors: Nobuko Yamabe, Hiroko Fujino, Tateo Zamabe, Takao Yoshizawa, Asako Uchida, Kazuko Kano, Makoto Uchida, Yoichi Yasukawa, Miyo Uchida, Aya Mine, Kanji Uchida, Tsujin Suzuki, Mikio Terajima, Toshio Nagai
Production: Wakamatsu Production, Japan
Format: 35mm B&W
Production Country: Japan
Production Year: 1965
Duration: 80
Contact: Wakamatsu Production, Japan T. +81 3 3341 7328 F. +81 3 3341 7361 otomo@yugakusha.co.jp

Kōji Wakamatsu

Kōji Wakamatsu was born in 1936 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. He directed his first film in 1963. In 1965, a German distributor who happened to be in Japan appreciated his film Secrets Behind the Wall and recommended it to the Berlin IFF. The Federation of Japanese Film Producers felt that it was a national disgrace for Japanese cinema to be represented by a “pink eiga” – an erotic film– and so they boycotted the film festival. In 1965, Wakamatsu founded his own production company and has directed more than one hundred films throughout his career.

Filmography

1965 Secrets behind the Wall
1966 The Embryo Hunts in Secret
1968 Violated Angels
1969 Go, Go Second Time Virgin
1970 Shinjuku Mad
1970 Sex Jack
1972 Ecstasy of the Angels
1977 Torture Chronicles Continues: 100 Years
1982 A Pool Without Water
1989 It's Easier Than Kissing
1993 Singapore Sling
1997 End of Our Own Reality
2004 Perfect Education 6
2007 United Red Army
2012 The Millennial Rapture