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The Idiot
Film / 1951

The Idiot

Directed by Akira Kurosawa
DramaRomance

★ 7.0/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

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
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Chiyoko FumiyaNoriko Mitsuyo AkashiMadame Akama Daisuke InoueKaoru Fumio Tooyama Jun Yokoyama Atsumi Nakama Kunio Teshirogi Shoichi Kofujita Yoichi Osugi Keiko Izumi Haruko Chichibu

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