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The Idiot (1951)

★ 7.0/10 166 min Drama, Romance Japan Japanese
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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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Setsuko Hara
Setsuko Hara Taeko Nasu
Masayuki Mori
Masayuki Mori Kinji Kameda
Toshirō Mifune
Toshirō Mifune Denkichi Akama
Yoshiko Kuga
Yoshiko Kuga Ayako
Takashi Shimura
Takashi Shimura Ono, Ayako's father
Chieko Higashiyama
Chieko Higashiyama Satoko, Ayako's mother
Eijirō Yanagi
Eijirō Yanagi Tohata
Minoru Chiaki
Minoru Chiaki Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary

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