A Page of Madness
7.3
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Directed by: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Overview
A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
Reviews (2)
Patrick E. Abe (Rated: 6)
"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-...
griggs79 (Rated: 8)
A Page of Madness is silent, surreal, and visually arresting — a descent into something far murkier than mere madness. The asylum pulses with unease; inmates convulse in what appears to be seizures, captured through a lens that mistakes illness for delirium, reflecting a time when epilepsy and men...
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