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Film · 1951
The Idiot
2h 46mDirected by Akira Kurosawa
- Drama
- Romance
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 HaraTaeko Nasu
Masayuki MoriKinji Kameda
Toshirō MifuneDenkichi Akama
Yoshiko KugaAyako
Takashi ShimuraOno, Ayako's father
Chieko HigashiyamaSatoko, Ayako's mother
Eijirō YanagiTohata
Minoru ChiakiMutsuo Kayama, the secretary
Noriko SengokuTakako
Kokuten KōdōJunpei
Bokuzen HidariKarube
Eiko MiyoshiMadame Kayama
Details
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writer
- Akira Kurosawa, Eijiro Hisaita
- Novel
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Music
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Cinematography
- Toshio Ubukata
- Editor
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Takashi Koide
- Release
- May 23, 1951
- Runtime
- 2h 46m
- Language
- Japanese
- Studio
- Shochiku
- TMDB score
- 7.0 / 10 from 137 votes
Where to watch
Stream
Criterion Channel
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