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The Idiot
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.
Where to watch The Idiot
The Idiot is streaming in the US on Criterion Channel.
Cast
- Setsuko Hara as Taeko Nasu
- Masayuki Mori as Kinji Kameda
- Toshirō Mifune as Denkichi Akama
- Yoshiko Kuga as Ayako
- Takashi Shimura as Ono, Ayako's father
- Chieko Higashiyama as Satoko, Ayako's mother
- Eijirō Yanagi as Tohata
- Minoru Chiaki as Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
- Noriko Sengoku as Takako
- Kokuten Kōdō as Junpei
- Bokuzen Hidari as Karube
- Eiko Miyoshi as Madame Kayama
Details
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Released
- May 23, 1951
- Runtime
- 2h 46m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Studio
- Shochiku
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 7.0 / 10 from 135 votes
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