Title: The Idiot (白痴)
Release Date: 1951-05-23
IMDB ID: tt0043614
Vote Average: 7 (126 votes)
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.
Cast: Setsuko Hara (Taeko Nasu), Masayuki Mori (Kinji Kameda), Toshirō Mifune (Denkichi Akama), Yoshiko Kuga (Ayako), Takashi Shimura (Ono, Ayako's father), Chieko Higashiyama (Satoko, Ayako's mother),
Crew: Fyodor Dostoevsky (Novel), Takashi Koide (Producer), Akira Kurosawa (Director), Fumio Hayasaka (Original Music Composer), Toshio Ubukata (Director of Photography), Yoshie Taguchi (Costume Design),
Release Date: 1951-05-23
IMDB ID: tt0043614
Vote Average: 7 (126 votes)
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.
Cast: Setsuko Hara (Taeko Nasu), Masayuki Mori (Kinji Kameda), Toshirō Mifune (Denkichi Akama), Yoshiko Kuga (Ayako), Takashi Shimura (Ono, Ayako's father), Chieko Higashiyama (Satoko, Ayako's mother),
Crew: Fyodor Dostoevsky (Novel), Takashi Koide (Producer), Akira Kurosawa (Director), Fumio Hayasaka (Original Music Composer), Toshio Ubukata (Director of Photography), Yoshie Taguchi (Costume Design),