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The Idiot

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The Idiot — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • May 23, 1951
  • Runtime
  • 166 min
  • Genres
  • Drama, Romance
  • Director
  • Akira Kurosawa

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The Idiot — Cast

Setsuko Hara photo Setsuko Hara Taeko Nasu Masayuki Mori photo Masayuki Mori Kinji Kameda Toshirō Mifune photo Toshirō Mifune Denkichi Akama Yoshiko Kuga photo Yoshiko Kuga Ayako Takashi Shimura photo Takashi Shimura Ono, Ayako's father Chieko Higashiyama photo Chieko Higashiyama Satoko, Ayako's mother Eijirō Yanagi photo Eijirō Yanagi Tohata Minoru Chiaki photo Minoru Chiaki Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary

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