The Idiot (1951)

Name: The Idiot
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1951-05-23
Duration: 166 min
Cast: Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga, Takashi Shimura

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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Released 1951-05-23 · 166 min · Drama, Romance

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

Cast

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