The Idiot
- Released on
Drama, Romance
•- Runtime
- 166 mins
(120 votes)
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.
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
- Setsuko Hara
- Masayuki Mori
- Toshirō Mifune
- Yoshiko Kuga
- Takashi Shimura
- Chieko Higashiyama
- Eijirō Yanagi
- Minoru Chiaki
- Noriko Sengoku
- Kokuten Kōdō
- Bokuzen Hidari
- Eiko Miyoshi
- Chiyoko Fumiya
- Mitsuyo Akashi
- Daisuke Inoue
- Fumio Tooyama
- Jun Yokoyama
- Atsumi Nakama
- Kunio Teshirogi
- Shoichi Kofujita
- Yoichi Osugi
- Keiko Izumi
- Haruko Chichibu
Director
- Akira Kurosawa
Producers
- Takashi Koide
Screenwriter
- Akira Kurosawa
- Eijiro Hisaita
