The Idiot
7.0(131) 1951-05-23 166 minDramaRomance
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.
ProducerTakashi Koide
Original Music ComposerFumio Hayasaka
DirectorAkira Kurosawa
ScreenplayAkira Kurosawa
ScreenplayEijiro Hisaita
Cast & characters
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
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Mitsuyo Akashi
as Madame Akama
Daisuke Inoue
as Kaoru
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Fumio Tooyama
as —
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Jun Yokoyama
as —
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Atsumi Nakama
as —
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Kunio Teshirogi
as —
Shoichi Kofujita
as —
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Yoichi Osugi
as —
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Keiko Izumi
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Haruko Chichibu
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