Kurutta Ippeiji
AKA A Crazy Page in the USA : [A Page of Madness]
(1926) Japanese
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast: Masao Inoue [the old custodian], Yoshie Nakagawa [his wife], Ayako Iijima [the daughter], Hiroshi Nemoto [the young man], Misao Seki [doctor], Eiko Minani [dancing girl], Minoru Takase [first madman], Kyosuke Takamatsu [second madman], Tetsu Tsuboi [third madman]

Kinugasa Motion Picture League production. / Produced by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Scenario by Teinosuke Kinugasa and Yasunari Kawabata. Art direction by Chiyio Azaki. Cinematography by Kôhei Sugiyama and Eiji Tsuburaya. / Released 24 September 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / A print of the film was discovered in a rice bin in Kinugasa’s garden shed in 1972.

Experimental: Avant-garde.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Avant-garde - Insane asylums

Listing updated: 5 October 2005.

References: Sato-Currents pp. 8, 57, 252; Sinyard-Silent p. 168 : Website-IMDb.