The Idiot
Hakuchi
1951, Film, 166 min, Drama, Romance, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 68
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.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
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
- Eijirô Yanagi as Tohata
- Minoru Chiaki as Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
- Noriko Sengoku as Takako
- Kokuten Kōdō as Jumpei
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