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A Page of Madness
A Page of Madness
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A PAGE OF MADNESS

狂った一頁 | Kurutta Ippēji

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa
Japan, 1926
Drama, Silent, Avant-Garde

Synopsis

A retired sailor gets hired in a mental hospital as a janitor. The old man wants to get close to his wife, locked away after the murder of their child, and tries to make her escape. But his wife refuses to follow him.

Synopsis

A retired sailor gets hired in a mental hospital as a janitor. The old man wants to get close to his wife, locked away after the murder of their child, and tries to make her escape. But his wife refuses to follow him.

Our take

A radical and pioneering work of genre cinema, this silent Japanese classic is one of the defining works by former kabuki star Teinosuke Kinugasa. Performed by an avant-garde theater troupe, A Page of Madness employs a startling array of expressionist techniques in service of its litany of horrors.