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

Koji Wakamatsu

He 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 to date.

Filmography

(selected)
1963 Amai wana
1965 Kabe no naka no himegoto/Secrets behind the Wall
1966 Taiji ga mitsuryosuru toki/The Embryo Hunts in Secret
1968 Okasareta hakui/Violated Angels
1969 Yuke, yuke nidome no shojo/Go, Go Second Time Virgin
1969 Gewalt! Gewalt: shojo geba-geba/Violent Virgin
1970 Shinjuku Madο/Shinjuku Mad
1970 Seizoku/Sex Jack
1971 Sekigun-PFLP: Sekai senso sengen/The Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
1972 Tenshi no kokotsu/Ecstasy of the Angels
1982 Mizu no nai puuru/A Pool Without Water
2007 Jitsuroku: Rengo Sekigun Asama Sanso E no Michi/United Red Army