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The Idiot

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Calorie Rating: 233
Released: 1951-05-23
Running Time: 166 Minutes
Studios: Shochiku,


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
Character: Taeko Nasu
Masayuki Mori
Character: Kinji Kameda
Toshirō Mifune
Character: Denkichi Akama

Yoshiko Kuga
Character: Ayako
Takashi Shimura
Character: Ono, Ayako's father
Chieko Higashiyama
Character: Satoko, Ayako's mother

Eijirō Yanagi
Character: Tohata
Minoru Chiaki
Character: Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
Noriko Sengoku
Character: Takako

Kokuten Kōdō
Character: Junpei
Bokuzen Hidari
Character: Karube
Eiko Miyoshi
Character: Madame Kayama

Chiyoko Fumiya
Character: Noriko
Mitsuyo Akashi
Character: Madame Akama
Daisuke Inoue
Character: Kaoru





Production and Crew

Fumio Hayasaka
Original Music Composer

Toshio Ubukata
Director of Photography
Ushitarô Shimada
Set Decoration

Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay
Akio Tamura
Lighting Technician
Yoshie Taguchi
Costume Design

Eijiro Hisaita
Screenplay
Yoshisaburo Seno
Sound Recordist
Takashi Matsuyama
Art Direction