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The Idiot

1951 2h 46m 7Movie
DramaRomance

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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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novel

Akira Kurosawa

Director, Screenplay

Eijiro Hisaita

Screenplay

Top Cast

Setsuko Hara

Setsuko Hara

Taeko Nasu

Masayuki Mori

Masayuki Mori

Kinji Kameda

Toshirō Mifune

Toshirō Mifune

Denkichi Akama

Yoshiko Kuga

Yoshiko Kuga

Ayako

Takashi Shimura

Takashi Shimura

Ono, Ayako's father

Chieko Higashiyama

Chieko Higashiyama

Satoko, Ayako's mother

Eijirō Yanagi

Eijirō Yanagi

Tohata

Minoru Chiaki

Minoru Chiaki

Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary

Noriko Sengoku

Noriko Sengoku

Takako

Kokuten Kōdō

Kokuten Kōdō

Junpei

Bokuzen Hidari

Bokuzen Hidari

Karube

Eiko Miyoshi

Eiko Miyoshi

Madame Kayama

Chiyoko Fumiya

Chiyoko Fumiya

Noriko

Mitsuyo Akashi

Madame Akama

Daisuke Inoue

Daisuke Inoue

Kaoru

Fumio Tooyama

Jun Yokoyama

Atsumi Nakama

Kunio Teshirogi

Shoichi Kofujita

Shoichi Kofujita

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