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59% Critic Match
Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
5.9 / 10• 1972• 1h 14m•NR• Japanese
RomanceThriller
Storyline
For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot reach a climax unless they peek at a couple, across the way, making love. Intent on climbing up in the world, Ayuko uses all her wiles to get her patron, who is putty in her hands, to move her from her grubby apartment house to a dreamboat of a place. She then tries to find a place to work more befitting her new home but all the elite night clubs will have nothing to do with her and with time heavy on her hands, the devil finds mischief for idle hands to do.
Cast & Crew
Kazuko Shirakawa
Ayuko Fukuzawa
Lead
Junko Miyashita
Chie Morikawa
Keiko Aikawa
Reiko
AY
Akemi Yamaguchi
Young Woman
YO
Yoko Oyanagi
Female Clerk
Chigusa Takayama
Woman Next Door
Sumiko Minami
Madame
EM
Eijiro Minato
Tsuda
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Shōgorō Nishimura's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Afternoon Affair: Rear Window is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
