A Page of Madness

A Page of Madness

Infobox Film
name = A Page of Madness


caption = Movie Poster
imdb_id = 0017048
director = Teinosuke Kinugasa
writer = Teinosuke Kinugasa
Yasunari Kawabata
starring = Masuo Inoue
Yoshie Nakagawa
released = September 24, 1926
country = flagicon|Japan Japan
language = Silent film
Japanese titles
runtime = 60 min.
amg_id = 1:105379
nihongo|"A Page of Madness"|狂った一頁|Kurutta Ippeji is a silent film by Japanese film director Kinugasa Teinosuke, made in 1926. It was lost for fifty years until being rediscovered by Kinugasa in a shed in 1971. The film is the product of an avant garde group of artists in Japan known as the shinkankaku-ha (or School of New Perceptions) who tried to overcome naturalistic representation. Yasunari Kawabata, who would win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, penned the original screenplay.

The film takes place in an asylum. Although cut together in an ever maddening maelstrom, the film loosely tells the story of the janitor of the asylum. His wife is one of the patients. One day their daughter shows up at the asylum to tell her mother about her engagement. This sets off a number of subplots and flashbacks which stitch together the family history (for instance, why the mother is a patient and why the daughter is unaware of her father's job as a janitor).

The film does not contain intertitles, making it difficult to follow for audiences today. Showings in 1920s Japan would have included live narration by a storyteller or Benshi ( _ja. 弁士) as well as musical accompaniment.

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/culture/2003/10/now_festival_page_of_madness.shtml BBC review feature]
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