A Page of Madness

An elderly man visits his mentally ill wife in a psychiatric hospital. Years earlier, she had tried to drown their child and then take her own life. Crushed by guilt and powerless to change what has happened, he stays on at the clinic as a janitor. Soon, their daughter comes to tell him she is getting married, and with her arrival come painful memories and tormenting visions.

Cast

Masao Inoue

Masao Inoue

as Custodian

Ayako Iijima

Ayako Iijima

as Daughter

Yoshie Nakagawa

Yoshie Nakagawa

as Custodian's Wife

Eiko Minami

Eiko Minami

as Dancer

Misao Seki

Misao Seki

as Doctor

Minoru Takase

Minoru Takase

as Crazy Man A

Hiroshi Nemoto

Hiroshi Nemoto

as Young Man

Kinnosuke Takamatsu

Kinnosuke Takamatsu

as Crazy Man B

Tetsu Tsuboi

Tetsu Tsuboi

as Crazy Man C

Shintarô Takiguchi

Shintarô Takiguchi

as Boy

Reviews

Patrick E. Abe

"Kurutta "Ippeiji" is notable for several reasons. First, it is one of the few Japanese silent movies of the 1920's to survive. Second, unlike most silent films, it lacks intertitles/title/dialog cards because a narrator, who also acted out lines and situations is/was to be present in a Kabuki-...

griggs79

_A Page of Madness_ is silent, surreal, and visually arresting — a descent into something far murkier than mere madness. The asylum pulses with unease; inmates convulse in what appears to be seizures, captured through a lens that mistakes illness for delirium, reflecting a time when epilepsy and men...

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