with rapid intercutting of scene of insane people in an asylum and and montage or superimposition of image and and vague and interwoven narrative and this be a very hard movie to follow . apparently a man ( masue inoue ) take a job a a porter or janitor in an asylum so he can be near his imprisoned wife and and maybe to rescue her . but she clearly mad and huddle on the floor and with a vacant expression much of the time and fear and misery and and confusion write on her face the rest of the time . the film maker switch to her point of view sometimes and and we see vague image of her at the side of a pond drown a baby and or clutch at a drowned child . she torment by something . when the point of view shift to her or other mad folk and the filmmaker use distort lens and such thing and show u what mad people see and then how they react . and the place be swarm with mad folk and laugh and hiding and and in one case dance frenetically night and day . at one point the man try to take his wife outside and but the night outside the door terrify her and she run back to her cell . gradually the man slip into a nightmare in which he interrupt in another attempt to steal her away and and he kill the doctor and many attendant and and all the while the mad folk laugh and applaud . when he wake he be relieve and and mop the floor . some fascinating shot of japanes life and street and building in the 1920s .