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The Idiot (Japanese: 白痴, Hepburn: Hakuchi) is a 1951 Japanese film directed and written by Akira Kurosawa. It is based on the 1869 novel The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The original 265-minute version of the film, faithful to the novel, has been long lost.
The Idiot: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga. A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.
- (5.7K)
- Drama, Romance
- Akira Kurosawa
- 1963-04-30
The Idiot, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's nineteenth-century masterpiece about a wayward, pure soul's reintegration into society—updated by Kurosawa to capture Japan’s postwar aimlessness—was a victim of studio interference and, finally, public indifference.
- 166 min
- 16.6K
- Shadows of the Dark
The Idiot is a 1951 film by the legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel about a pure soul in postwar Japan. The film was a commercial failure but a stylish and otherworldly masterpiece of humanism and cinematography.
- Taeko Nasu
Synopsis. Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama realizes that he will never have Taeko, his thoughts turn to murder, and great tragedy ensues.
- (6K)
- Shochiku
- Akira Kurosawa
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The Idiot. Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1951 • Japan. In post-World War II Japan, childlike veteran Kinji suffers from post-traumatic stress-induced seizures, and, after treatment at a mental health institution in Okinawa, he returns to his hometown.
