The Idiot

The Idiot (1951)

7.0 166 min Movie
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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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

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