Kurutta ippêji (1926)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Writers:

Yasunari Kawabata (short story)
Yasunari Kawabata (adaptation) ...

Release Date:

January 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Asylum | Dream Sequence | 1920s | Japan | Avant Garde

Cast

Masuo Inoue	...	Custodian
Yoshie Nakagawa	...	Custodian's wife
Ayako Iijima	...	Daughter
Hiroshi Nemoto	...	Young Man
Misao Seki	...	Doctor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Eiko Minami	...	Dancing girl
Kyosuke Takamatsu	...	Second madman
Minoru Takase	...	First madman
Tetsu Tsuboi	...	Third madman

Also Known As:

A Crazy Page
A Page of Madness
Kurutta ichipêji (Japan) (alternative transliteration)
Kurutta ichipeiji (Japan) (alternative transliteration)

Runtime:

59 min (1975 sound version) | 78 min (2007 restoration) (18 fps)

Country:

Japan

Language:

None

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent

Company:

Kinugasa Productions

Trivia:

This film was lost for fifty years until being rediscovered by Kinugasa in a shed in 1971.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois (2004)

Haunts me still after 25 years

I saw "A Page of Madness" in a silent film course at Wesleyan University and it haunts me still after 25 years. Truly ahead of its time - perhaps even still - this gem of a film reveals both the frightening and attractive aspects of madness.