The Idiot
白痴
Release: 1951-05-23
·Runtime: 166m
·★ 7.0
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Shochiku
Cast
Chieko Higashiyama
as Satoko, Ayako's mother
Daisuke Inoue
as Kaoru
Toshirō Mifune
as Denkichi Akama
Eijirō Yanagi
as Tohata
Eiko Miyoshi
as Madame Kayama
Setsuko Hara
as Taeko Nasu
Yoshiko Kuga
as Ayako
Takashi Shimura
as Ono, Ayako's father
Noriko Sengoku
as Takako
Minoru Chiaki
as Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
Kokuten Kōdō
as Junpei
Bokuzen Hidari
as Karube
Shoichi Kofujita
Masayuki Mori
as Kinji Kameda
