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The Idiot

7.0 166 mins Drama   Romance   1951
Shochiku  
Director(s): Akira Kurosawa

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.

Casts of The Idiot

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

Bokuzen Hidari

as Karube

Eiko Miyoshi

as Madame Kayama

Chiyoko Fumiya

as Noriko

Mitsuyo Akashi

as Madame Akama

Daisuke Inoue

as Kaoru

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