The Idiot 1951
白痴
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.
Cast
M
Mitsuyo Akashi
Madame Akama
F
Fumio Tooyama
J
Jun Yokoyama
A
Atsumi Nakama
Crew
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writers
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Akira Kurosawa, Eijiro Hisaita
- Producers
- Takashi Koide
- Cinematography
- Toshio Ubukata
- Editing
- Akira Kurosawa
- Composer
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Costume Design
- Yoshie Taguchi
Details
- Release date
- May 23, 1951
- Runtime
- 166 min
- Status
- Released
- Studios
- Shochiku
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
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