Film
The Idiot
1951 · 2h 46m · Drama · Romance
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- 7.1
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- 60%
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Overview
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.
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Cast
Setsuko Hara
Taeko Nasu
Masayuki Mori
Kinji Kameda
Toshirō Mifune
Denkichi Akama
Yoshiko Kuga
Ayako
Takashi Shimura
Ono, Ayako's father
Chieko Higashiyama
Satoko, Ayako's mother
Eijirō Yanagi
Tohata
Minoru Chiaki
Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
Noriko Sengoku
Takako
Kokuten Kōdō
Junpei
Bokuzen Hidari
Karube
Eiko Miyoshi
Madame Kayama
Chiyoko Fumiya
Noriko
Mitsuyo Akashi
Madame Akama
Daisuke Inoue
Kaoru
Fumio Tooyama
Crew
- Akira KurosawaDirector · Editor · Screenplay
- Eijiro HisaitaScreenplay
- Fyodor DostoevskyNovel
- Takashi KoideProducer
- Toshio UbukataDirector of Photography
- Fumio HayasakaOriginal Music Composer
Media
Details
- Release date
- May 23, 1951
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 2h 46m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
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