A Page of Madness / Portrait of a Young Man - BLU-RAY
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- Genre: Drama
- Description: A Page of Madness (1926) Teinosuke Kinugasas A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeiji) , produced in mid-1920s Japan, is widely considered to be one of the touchstones of early avant-garde cinema, and is also one of the most challenging and narratively complex films of the era. The fact that this important work has never before been released on home video may be in part due to the textual difficulty, though certainly the scarcity of source material was also a contributing factor. Now, thanks to Blackhawk Films, Flicker Alley is proud to present the Blu-ray premiere of A Page of Madness in a new high-definition scan with by a score by the Alloy Orchestra. Both an attempt at redefining narrative conventions and a harkening back to traditional, Japanese melodrama, the film can be seen as a negotiation of cinematic potentials at a time of historic change and theoretical division in the art form. Based on a treatment written by 1968 Nobel Prize winning novelist Yasunari Kawabata, the story, as laid out in the script, is simple. A retired sailor (Masao Inoue) becomes a custodian at a mental hospital to be closer to his estranged wife (Yoshie Nakagawa), one of the patients at the facility. Their daughter (Ayako Iijima) is soon to be married, but the fathers fear and pain surrounding his wifes mental state along with the reasons for her captivity threaten the future happiness of the family. Teinosuke utilizes flashbacks, rhythmic intercutting, and impressionistic symbolism, all without intertitles, to supersede naturalistic representation by visually inhabiting the emotional lives of the characters. This edition of A Page of Madness is scanned from a 16mm print and the image quality is therefore correlative to the source material. These minor limitations, however, are more than made up for by the visceral power of the film, along with a brand-new score by the incomparable Alloy O
- Title: A Page of Madness / Portrait of a Young Man
- Format: Blu-ray
- MPAA Rating: NR (Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) film-rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film's suitability for certain audiences.)
- Studio: Flicker Alley
- Release Date: 06/01/2017
- Genre: Drama
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- Product Name: A Page of Madness / Portrait of a Young Man - BLU-RAY
- UPC: 818522018393
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