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http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org/film_details.asp?id=10&fID=511
A Page of Madness
KURUTTA IPPÊJI
22nd June | 4.30PM | State Theatre
Kinugasa's extraordinary 1926 silent masterpiece was believed lost for many
years, until the director himself uncovered a print in his garden storeroom.
The film is based on a short story by Nobel laureate Kawabata, in which a
sailor takes a job in a lunatic asylum where his crazed wife is confined,
hoping one day to free her. Kinusaga, using a torrent of images,
convincingly creates a world of insanity and confinement. Despite
similarities to German expressionist works like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(unseen in Japan at the time) and, in structure, Eisenstein's Battleship
Potemkin, Kinugasa's film is a true original - 'one of the most radical and
challenging Japanese movies ever seen' (Time Out). JN
Discuss this film
Dir Teinosuke Kinugasa
Prod Teinosuke Kinugasa
Scr Kinugasa, Yasunari Kawabata, Minoru Inuzuka
With Masuo Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa
Country Japan
Language Silent with live musical accompaniment
Duration 72 mins
Distributor George Eastman House
World Sales/Australian distributor George Eastman House
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