A Question about Kinugasa's "A Crazy Page"

[Aaron Gerow]

>For what it's worth, when Richie introduced "Kurutta Ippeiji" at the 
>Harvard Film Archives recently, he stated that a proper translation 
>would be something "Pages out of order".  He took the blame for 
>originally mistranslating this as "Pages of Madness".

Well, actually, the Japanese itself is ambiguous, which makes it such a 
good title.  Kurutta can mean both "madness" or a "out of order," and 
both clearly fit the film: it is set in a mental hospital and it features 
a complex re-ordering of narrative time.  Other meanings can also be 
drawn from the title.

Aaron Gerow
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