The Idiot

The Idiot (1951)

Drama Romance

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.

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  • Release Date: 1951-05-23
  • Runtime: 2h 46min
  • Director: Akira Kurosawa

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    • Cast

    • 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

    • Chiyoko Fumiya

      Noriko

    • Mitsuyo Akashi

      Madame Akama

    • Daisuke Inoue

      Kaoru

    • Fumio Tooyama

    • Jun Yokoyama

    • Atsumi Nakama

    • Kunio Teshirogi

    • Shoichi Kofujita

    • Yoichi Osugi

    • Keiko Izumi

    • Haruko Chichibu

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