The Idiot
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- Drama
- Romance
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.
Keywords
- blizzard
- jealousy
- snow
- love triangle
- dostoevsky
- post war japan
- epileptic
- russian literature
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 23, 1951
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Shochiku
- Cast
- Setsuko Hara,Masayuki Mori,Toshirō Mifune,Yoshiko Kuga,Takashi Shimura,Chieko Higashiyama,Eijirō Yanagi,Minoru Chiaki,Noriko Sengoku,Kokuten Kōdōand 13 more
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Takashi Koide
- Cinematography
- Toshio Ubukata
- Music
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0043614