A Page of Madness

Author’s music caneret91 [Dream Walk in Anima Audio] Tribute and inspiration with a 1926 Japanese silent film “A Page of Madness“ (Kurutta Ichipeiji) directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Lost for forty-five years until being rediscovered by its director in his storehouse in 1971, 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. Yasunari Kawabata, who would win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, was credited on the film with the original story. He is often cited as the film’s screenwriter, 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. Eiji Tsuburaya is credited as an assistant cameraman.