The Idiot (1951)
白痴
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.
- Date of release
- 1951-05-23
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (137)
- Runtime
- 2h 46m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
Casting
- 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
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