A Page of Madness

Movie

1926

1h 11m

Japanese

Horror, Drama

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7.2

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A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

A Page of Madness

Movie

1926

1h 11m

Japanese

Horror, Drama

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

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7.2

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Cast

Custodian

Daughter

Custodian's Wife

Dancer

Doctor

Crazy Man A

Young Man

Crazy Man B

Crazy Man B

Crazy Man C

Boy

Directed By: Teinosuke Kinugasa

Written By: Minoru Inuzuka, Teinosuke Kinugasa, + 3 more

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danielmarmol says...

9 years ago

This isn't a page, this is at least a book of thousand pages of true madness.

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manicure says...

3 years ago

I stumbled upon this obscure Japanese film by almost accident but was immediately taken in by the uncanny atmosphere of the images. Even though it's hard to figure out plot details without the original narration, I could enjoy most of it as some sort of moving avant-garde painting. The most astonishing thing is how Kinugasa could use lighting and simple editing techniques as proper storytelling devices, for example, distortion to show the same angle from a different perspective, overlaps to emphasize hallucinations, and cross-cutting to switch from dream to reality or to introduce a flashback. These techniques might not have been entirely new for Asian cinema at that time, but had been hardly implemented with such a modern taste.

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Patrick E. Abe

6 years ago

"Kurutta "Ippeiji" is notable for several reasons.
First, it is one of the few Japanese silent movies of the 1920's to survive.

Second, unlike most silent films, it lacks intertitles/title/dialog cards because a narrator, who also acted out lines and situations is/was to be present in a Kabuki- More

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