A Page of Madness (狂った一頁, Kurutta Ichipēji) is a 1926 Japanese silent experimental horror film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

A Page of Madness is set in an insane asylum and employs rapid, rhythmic montage sequences, multiple exposures, lens distortions, and a battery of other visual techniques to convey the abnormal sensory experiences and visions of the inmates.

Jul 24, 2019 · A Page of Madness is a tour de force of experimental film design as well as a sophisticated exploration of the possibility of representing not only insanity, but subjectivity as such, on screen.

Oct 10, 2019 · A Page of Madness; a 1926 silent Japanese horror film that was thought lost for 26 years, until the director found a print in his own storehouse 45 years later in 1971. I just watched this last week and lemme say that it was the most confused I have ever felt during a movie.

... play a crucial role in A Page of Madness (Figure 3), but they also function in his short story 'The Man Who Did Not Smile', a fictional work about a scriptwriter working on a film in...

Sep 9, 2020 · A Page of Madness centres around a man who takes a janitorial job at a mental asylum after his wife is taken in as a patient there. After a great deal of stress, the janitor himself begins to slip into a fantasy world in his own mind, while …

A slowly growing madness that engulfs you— “A Page of Madness” is an artistic endeavor of 1926. Staying true to it’s title, it really is a page of madness. The story takes place inside an asylum.

A Page of Madness (狂った一頁 Kurutta Ippēji or Kurutta Ichipeiji) is a silent film by Japanese film director Teinosuke Kinugasa, made in 1926. It was lost for forty-five years until being rediscovered...

Jan 17, 2019 · Though the syn­op­sis of the plot doesn’t real­ly do jus­tice to the movie — a retired sailor who works at an insane asy­lum to care after his wife who tried to kill their child — the visu­al audac­i­ty of Page is still star­tling today.

Since the vast majority of Japanese films from the silent era are lost, the existence of a film as unusual and important as A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeiji, 1926) is a real stroke of luck.