A Page of Madness
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A Page of Madness (狂った一頁, Kurutta Ichipeiji) is a 1926 Japanese silent experimental horror film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Lost for 45 years until it was rediscovered by Kinugasa in his storehouse in 1971,[3][4] the film is the product of an avant-garde group of artists in Japan known as the Shinkankakuha (or School of New Perceptions) who tried to overcome naturalistic representation.[5][6][7] The film is set in a mental institution in contemporary Japan.
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Directed by | Teinosuke Kinugasa |
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Produced by | Teinosuke Kinugasa |
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Cinematography | Kōhei Sugiyama [ja] Eiji Tsuburaya[1] |
Music by | Minoru Muraoka ("New Sound" version) |
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Running time | 71 minutes[2] |
Country | Japan |
Yasunari Kawabata, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, was credited on the film with the original story. He is often cited as the screenwriter,[8] and a version of the scenario is printed in his complete works, but the scenario is now considered a collaboration between him, Kinugasa, Banko Sawada, and Minoru Inuzuka.[9] Eiji Tsuburaya is credited as an assistant cameraman.[10]