A Page of Madness

Synopsis

An elderly man visits his mentally ill wife in a psychiatric hospital. Years earlier, she had tried to drown their child and then take her own life. Crushed by guilt and powerless to change what has happened, he stays on at the clinic as a janitor. Soon, their daughter comes to tell him she is getting married, and with her arrival come painful memories and tormenting visions.

Director

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Written by

Yasunari Kawabata

Studio

Shin Kankaku-ha Eiga Renmei Productions

Released

24 September 1926

Genres

Horror, Drama