The Idiot

May 23, 1951

2h 46m

★ 7.0

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.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Shochiku

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Cast

Taeko Nasu

Setsuko Hara

Kinji Kameda

Masayuki Mori

Denkichi Akama

Toshirō Mifune

Ayako

Yoshiko Kuga

Ono, Ayako's father

Takashi Shimura

Satoko, Ayako's mother

Chieko Higashiyama

Tohata

Eijirō Yanagi

Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary

Minoru Chiaki

Takako

Noriko Sengoku

Junpei

Kokuten Kōdō

Karube

Bokuzen Hidari

Madame Kayama

Eiko Miyoshi

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