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still from A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippēji) (Teinosuke Kinugasa, JP 1926)

A Page of Madness

Teinosuke Kinugasa / JP, 1926 / 60 min.

Based on a short story by the Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, this film depicts the delusions of an institutionalized woman. The rarely screened film, which has been hailed as the Oriental equivalent of Robert Wiene’s Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, is part of EYE’s Japan programme which runs until December.

still from A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippēji) (Teinosuke Kinugasa, JP 1926)
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Details

Director

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Production year

1926

Country

JP

Original title

Kurutta ippeiji

Length

60 min.

Language

none, live music, Japanese, English

still from A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippēji) (Teinosuke Kinugasa, JP 1926)
still from A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippēji) (Teinosuke Kinugasa, JP 1926)
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