Kurutta Ippeji (1926)

Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database	08.27.09

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A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife. Title: Kurutta Ippeji Release Date: January , 1975 Runtime: 59 mins Genre: Drama All Genres: Drama, Horror Languages: None Country: Japan Colors: Black and White Sound: Silent IMDB Rating: 7.9 Brimstone Pit Rating: 8.9 - (Rate This Horror Movie) Category: Horror Movies Starting With K Director(s): Teinosuke Kinugasa Cast: Masuo Inoue ...Custodian yoshie Nakagawa ...Custodian's wife Ayako Iijima ...Daughter Hiroshi Nemoto ...young Man Misao Seki ...Doctor Eiko Minami ...Dancing girl Kyosuke Takamatsu ...Second madman Minoru Takase ...First madman Tetsu Tsuboi ...Third madman Remaining Cast: Producer(s): Teinosuke Kinugasa Writer(s): yasunari Kawabata yasunari Kawabata Teinosuke Kinugasa Minoru Inuzuka Movie Trivia: This film was lost for fifty years until being rediscovered by Kinugasa in a shed in 1971. Back then most Japanese cinemas would show domestic films, and some other cinemas would show foreign films. Ever since this films is quite different from most films which were made back then, it would be shown in latter cinemas. Quite to the surprise of everybody, the film would immediately be a big success. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa had so little money to make this film, that his stars - some of them rather big names - had to help paint sets, push the dolly and make props. He had only eight small lights to work with, so he painted the walls of his small studio silver to make them reflect additional illumination. The film was shot over a relatively long period - one month. Since Director Teinosuke Kinugasa couldn't afford accommodations for his actors, they slept on the set or in the front office. IMDB Links: » User Comments at imdb.com » More information at imdb.com Keywords: Asylum, Japan, Dream Sequence, 1920s, Avant Garde  ...[more] Keywords All: Silent Film, Japanese, Surrealism Seen it? Rate it Currently 8.90/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rating: 8.9 out of 10.0 - 52 votes cast total buy movie on dvd del.icio.us  |  digg  |  reddit Enter your zipcode for movie listings: » BACK TO HORROR MOVIES LIST