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AKA: Kurutta ippêji
Directed by: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Starring: Masao Inoue (Old Man), Yoshie Nakagawa (Wife), Ayako Iijima (Daughter), Eiko Minami (Dancer)
Country: Japan, Asian Cinema
Language: –
Runtime: 01:10:51
Genres: Surreal, Misery-Depressing, Family
Plot – Spoilers:
An old man works at an asylum as a sort of janitor and keeps an eye on the inmates in their cells. But he has special concern for one particular woman who it turns out is his wife. The doctors and other staff however are unaware of this relationship.
The old man’s daughter turns up at the asylum one day to let him know she’s getting married. The father-daughter share an uneasy relationship that suggests a previously disturbed family. Some critics have inferred he was cruel to his wife earlier, and his hovering around her cell is a reflection of his guilt. But what a beautifully tragic scenario – to work in an asylum where a loved one is housed.
The arrival of the daughter and the degeneration of his wife has a debilitating effect on the old man and he soon starts drifting between reality and fantasy. In a cruel twist of fate, the daughter’s husband is prone to depression and will later become an inmate at the asylum.
As A Page of Madness was a silent film, the music featured in the version here was added recently. For a film that’s nearly a hundred years old, insanity has been portrayed quite magnificently and the scene where the inmates go nuts over the dancer is truly memorable.
Welp,that was actually kinda boring ngl.It’s extremely hard to follow without the title cards,but the atmosphere is something compared to begotten or something similar to this.
Still,that movie is pretty fucking weird though,but for a 100 year old film, it’s okay, it’s just outdated.
Patience is required to view a 100 year old silent film with a recently added musical score. There is no text to guide you along the story so you will be interpreting what is happening as it goes and it is sometimes hard to follow. This film was actually a box office success in 1926 but theater goers had the benefit of live narration and music. I wouldn’t say this would be a film that the average movie watchers would want to sit through for 70 minutes. 2 and a half stars mainly for the cinematic achievement for 1926.
An interesting 18 minute short film about space travel is the French film “Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902).” This film was made 124 years ago and NASA used it as the blueprint for the Apollo moon landing missions. It’s an interesting film and it will test the faith of even hard core moon landing believers.
As stated by another reviewer, the imagery and atmosphere draw you in: hypnotic. 4/5 masks.
This isn’t the og soundtrack right? Anyone knows where i could see the og ver, if it’s even possible?
Proof Japan was weird af before the bombs
As unsettling a film as I have ever seen. I assume the lack of titles is due to the live narration that Japanese silents would have. It makes any narrative rather hard to follow but the imagery and atmosphere are impeccable.