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The Idiot

Original title: 白痴

★ 7.0 TMDB Rating · 135 votes

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.

Director
Akira Kurosawa
Release date
May 23, 1951
Original language
Japanese
Origin
Japan

Cast of The Idiot

  • Portrait of Setsuko Hara

    Setsuko Hara

    Taeko Nasu

  • Portrait of Masayuki Mori

    Masayuki Mori

    Kinji Kameda

  • Portrait of Toshirō Mifune

    Toshirō Mifune

    Denkichi Akama

  • Portrait of Yoshiko Kuga

    Yoshiko Kuga

    Ayako

  • Portrait of Takashi Shimura

    Takashi Shimura

    Ono, Ayako's father

  • Portrait of Chieko Higashiyama

    Chieko Higashiyama

    Satoko, Ayako's mother

  • Portrait of Eijirō Yanagi

    Eijirō Yanagi

    Tohata

  • Portrait of Minoru Chiaki

    Minoru Chiaki

    Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary

  • Portrait of Noriko Sengoku

    Noriko Sengoku

    Takako

  • Portrait of Kokuten Kōdō

    Kokuten Kōdō

    Junpei

  • Portrait of Bokuzen Hidari

    Bokuzen Hidari

    Karube

  • Portrait of Eiko Miyoshi

    Eiko Miyoshi

    Madame Kayama

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