The Idiot

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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  Akira Kurosawa

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  Setsuko Hara
  Taeko Nasu
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  Masayuki Mori
  Kinji Kameda
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  Toshirō Mifune
  Denkichi Akama
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  Yoshiko Kuga
  Ayako
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  Takashi Shimura
  Ono, Ayako's father
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  Chieko Higashiyama
  Satoko, Ayako's mother
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  Eijirō Yanagi
  Tohata
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  Minoru Chiaki
  Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
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  Noriko Sengoku
  Takako
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  Kokuten Kōdō
  Junpei
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  Bokuzen Hidari
  Karube
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  Eiko Miyoshi
  Madame Kayama
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  Chiyoko Fumiya
  Noriko
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  Mitsuyo Akashi
  Madame Akama
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  Daisuke Inoue
  Kaoru
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  Fumio Tooyama
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  Jun Yokoyama
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  Atsumi Nakama
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  Kunio Teshirogi
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  Shoichi Kofujita