A Page of Madness (Kurutta ippêji)

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7.9	Rating (72 ratings)
7.4	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Starring (View all)

Masuo Inoue
Servant

Ayako Iijima
Servant's Daughter

Yoshie Nakagawa
Servant's Wife

Hiroshi Nemoto
Young Man

Misao Seki
Doctor

Minoru Takase
Crazy Man A

Eiko Minami
Dancer

Tetsu Tsuboi
Crazy Man C

Written by

Yasunari Kawabata
(short story)

Teinosuke Kinugasa
(adaptation)

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1 year, 9 months ago at Oct 18 1:48

fernando

(MU) Rare, exprimental, audacious (no texts, difficult story), the desire of depict madness formally exceeds the storytelling...

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

Release date: 1 January 1975

Tags: 1920s (4), Japan (3), Silent (3), 1926 (3), Experimental (2), Streaming (1), Drama (1), Not Foreign (1), Not Foreign Language (1), East Asia (1), Youtube (1), New Line Cinema (1), Surrealism (1), Psychological Drama (1), Bw (1), Cult (1), Horror (1), Thriller (1)

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