Page of Madness

A Page of Madness, one of the greatest avant-garde films in history, was directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa in 1926, and lost for nearly half-a-century. Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari’s story centers on a janitor at an asylum that holds his wife. Japanese benshi Yamauchi Nanako will narrate the film, and Little Bang Theory will perform an original score by Frank Pahl on toy and hand-made instruments. Long considered a lost film, this performance is based on a color restoration recently undertaken by the National Film Archive of Japan using the original negative director Kinugasa found in his garden storehouse in the 1970s. 

Supported in part by the Center for Japanese Studies, U-Michigan.