BigList
Login / Sign up
The Idiot (1951)

The Idiot (1951)

Drama Romance
Release Date: 1951, May 23
Directors: Akira Kurosawa
Countries: Japan
Production: Shochiku
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Bokuzen Hidari, Kokuten Kōdō, Noriko Sengoku, Eiko Miyoshi, Masayuki Mori, Daisuke Inoue, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Eijirō Yanagi

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

snow love triangle russian literature blizzard jealousy post war japan dostoevsky epileptic