A Page Of Madness is a silent japanese movie, released 1926, lost, found and re-released by its director Teinosuke Kinugasa 1971.
The music was composed and played live to the movie for the Week of Sound in Hanoi in october 2016.

The plot is pretty simple : a man works as a janitor in an asylum in order to stay closest to his wife, who is one of the patients. His daughter is getting married and discovers this as she goes visit her mother. Her mother’s madness seems to be an issue to her future husband. The janitor feels concerned about how he could help his daughter.

But the plot is only a pretext to explore what an asylum was at that time, and what madness can be. We see the patients from outside, but are in the sane janitor’s mind, whose daydreams and actions might have gone mad…