Teinosuke Kinugasa was a Japanese filmmaker and actor. His best-known films include the silent avant-garde films A Page of Madness and Crossroads and the Academy Award-winning historical drama Gate of Hell.
Kinugasa in 1952
A Page of Madness is a 1926 Japanese silent experimental horror film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Lost for 45 years until it was rediscovered by Kinugasa in his storehouse in 1971, the film is the product of an avant-garde group of artists in Japan known as the Shinkankakuha who tried to overcome naturalistic representation. The film is set in a mental institution in contemporary Japan.
Promotional release poster
A corridor in the asylum (film still)
Eiko Minami in A Page of Madness