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The Idiot

Akira Kurosawa

1951 • 2h 46m

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...

The Idiot

Cast

Setsuko Hara

Setsuko HaraTaeko Nasu

Masayuki Mori

Masayuki MoriKinji Kameda

Toshirō Mifune

Toshirō MifuneDenkichi Akama

Yoshiko Kuga

Yoshiko KugaAyako

Takashi Shimura

Takashi ShimuraOno, Ayako's father

Chieko Higashiyama

Chieko HigashiyamaSatoko, Ayako's mother

Eijirō Yanagi

Eijirō YanagiTohata

Minoru Chiaki

Minoru ChiakiMutsuo Kayama, the secretary

Noriko Sengoku

Noriko SengokuTakako

Kokuten Kōdō

Kokuten KōdōJunpei

Bokuzen Hidari

Bokuzen HidariKarube

Eiko Miyoshi

Eiko MiyoshiMadame Kayama

Chiyoko Fumiya

Chiyoko FumiyaNoriko

Mitsuyo AkashiMadame Akama

Daisuke Inoue

Daisuke InoueKaoru

Crew

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor DostoevskyNovel

Akira Kurosawa

Akira KurosawaDirector

Fumio Hayasaka

Fumio HayasakaOriginal Music Composer

Eijiro Hisaita

Eijiro HisaitaScreenplay

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