The Idiot
7.019512h 46mDrama / Romance
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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Details
- Original title
- 白痴
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 23 May 1951
- Runtime
- 166 min
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writers
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Akira Kurosawa, Eijiro Hisaita
- Music
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Studios
- Shochiku
- Countries
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese