The Idiot
1951 · Movie · 166 min · ★ 7.0
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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Details
- Years
- 1951
- Release date
- 1951-05-23
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 166 min
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 (127 votes)
Themes
- jealousy
- love triangle
- snow
- blizzard
- dostoevsky
- post war japan
- epileptic
- russian literature
Cast & crew
Setsuko Hara
as Taeko Nasu
Masayuki Mori
as Kinji Kameda
Toshirō Mifune
as Denkichi Akama
Yoshiko Kuga
as Ayako
Takashi Shimura
as Ono, Ayako's father
Chieko Higashiyama
as Satoko, Ayako's mother
Eijirō Yanagi
as Tohata
Minoru Chiaki
as Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
Noriko Sengoku
as Takako
Kokuten Kōdō
as Junpei
Directed by Akira Kurosawa