The Idiot

1951

Japanese

7.1

♡ 11

60%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Toshirô Mifune as Denkichi Akama

Masayuki Mori as Kinji Kameda

Setsuko Hara as Taeko Nasu

Eijirô Yanagi as Tohata

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.