A Page of Madness (1926)
- Original title
- 狂った一頁
- Directed by
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Genre
- drama film, silent film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 11m
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 170 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man takes a job as a janitor at a mental institution where his wife is a patient. He tries to free her and cope with the chaos of the asylum and its inmates.
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What happens
A Page of Madness (狂った一頁, Kurutta Ichipēji) is a 1926 Japanese silent experimental horror film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Lost for 45 years until it was rediscovered by Kinugasa in his storehouse in 1971, the film is the product of an avant-garde group of artists in Japan known as the Shinkankakuha (or School of New Perceptions) who tried to overcome naturalistic representation. The film is set in a mental institution in contemporary Japan. Yasunari Kawabata, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, was credited on the film with the original story. He is often cited as the screenwriter, and a version of the scenario is printed in his complete works, but the scenario is now considered a collaboration between him, Kinugasa, Banko Sawada, and Minoru Inuzuka. Eiji Tsuburaya is credited as an assistant cameraman. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Desire of Night (1930)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.