A Page of Madness (狂った一頁 Kurutta Ippēji or Kurutta Ichipeiji?) is a silent film by Japanese film director Teinosuke Kinugasa, made in 1926. It was lost for forty-five years until being rediscovered by Kinugasa in his storehouse in 1971.


“Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.” 
― Yasunari Kawabata

“It may be said that the Master was plagued in his last match by modern rationalism, to which fussy rules were everything, from which all the grace and elegance of Go as art had disappeared, which quite dispensed with respect for elders and attached no importance to mutual respect as human beings. From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation. The road to advancement in rank, which controlled the life of a player, had become a meticulous point system. One conducted the battle only to win, and there was no margin for remembering the dignity and the fragrance of Go as an art. The modern way was to insist upon doing battle under conditions of abstract justice...” 
― Yasunari Kawabata, The Master of Go

music
Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko - When the Night Comes
from the great album 28 j
https://youtu.be/TdowMtCIYRA


A Page of Madness
Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa
Written by Teinosuke Kinugasa and
Yasunari Kawabata
actors
Banko Sawada
Minoru Inuzuka
Starring Masao Inoue
Ayako Iijima
Yoshie Nakagawa
Hiroshi Nemoto
Misao Seki
Minoru Takase
Eiko Minami
Release dates
24 September 1926
Running time
60 min.
Country Japan
Language Silent film
Japanese titles

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