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The Idiot (1951)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
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Overview
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.
Length 166 minutes
Actors
Setsuko Hara | Masayuki Mori | Toshirō Mifune | Yoshiko Kuga | Takashi Shimura | Chieko Higashiyama | Eijirô Yanagi | Minoru Chiaki | Noriko Sengoku | Kokuten Kôdô | Bokuzen Hidari | Eiko Miyoshi | Chiyoko Fumiya | Mitsuyo Akashi | Daisuke Inoue | Fumio Tooyama | Jun Yokoyama | Atsumi Nakama | Kunio Teshirogi | Shoichi Kofujita | Yoichi Osugi | Keiko Izumi | Haruko Chichibu