The Idiot (1951)
23/05/1951
Drama, Romance
2h 46m
- 70% (118 votes)
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Overview
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama realizes that he will never have Taeko, his thoughts turn to murder, and great tragedy ensues.
- Akira KurosawaDirector, Screenplay
- Eijirō HisaitaScreenplay
Original Title
白痴
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Keywords
- jealousy
- love triangle
- snow
- blizzard
- dostoevsky
- post war japan
- epileptic
- russian literature
Top Billed Cast
Setsuko Hara
Taeko Nasu
Masayuki Mori
Kinji Kameda
Toshirō Mifune
Denkichi Akama
Yoshiko Kuga
Ayako
Takashi Shimura
Ono, Ayako's father
Chieko Higashiyama
Satoko, Ayako's mother
Eijirō Yanagi
Tohata
Minoru Chiaki
Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
Noriko Sengoku
Takako
Kokuten Kōdō
Junpei
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